Jack's House of Buggery

Well, different people find different characters interesting. DC does have a bunch of women characters in the DCU. Off the top of my head (and with the ones I find interesting in bold):


Barbara as Batgirl (no, she didn't interest me as much then)
Barbara as Oracle
Cassandra / Batgirl (and even if she's not Batgirl, actually)
Helena / Huntress (never did much for me)
Dinah / Black Canary (enh, though she's growing on me)

Detective "Josie Mac" MacDonald (you didn't specify capes, and Gotham's got some cool cops)
Detective Renee Montoya (more so than ever since Gotham Central outed her)
Lieutenant Sarah Essen-Gordon
Captain Maggie Sawyer (Gotham Major Crimes Unit; formerly of Metropolis)
Captain Amy Rohrbach (Dick's first partner on the Blüdhaven PD)

Dr. Leslie Thompkins (There are few better examples of how a civilian can be a hero.)
Sasha Bordeaux
Lois Lane (bores me silly, but that's a minority opinion; Lois is interesting enough to have had her own title, way back in the Silver Age)

Jennie-Lynn / Jade (I first got interested in Jade during Judd Winick's run on GL, and I'm delighted she's joined Dick's new Outsiders.)
Grace Choi (Another Outsider, and just guh.)
Anissa / Thunder (Black Lightning's daughter; how cool is that?)
Indigo (the remaining 'female' Outsider... who may yet grow on me more)

Koriand'r / Starfire (I'm actively resisting liking her at this point, actually. I can admit when I'm being petty.)
Cassie / Wonder Girl
Cissie / Arrowette (retired, but this doesn't actually make her less interesting)
Raven (not grabbing me yet, and her Wolfman incarnation scared me in ways other than, I think, the ones intended; but I see this changing)
Donna / Troia (dead now, but again, still interesting, and something tells me we'll see her new incarnation again)
Lian Harper (hardly ever seen or even mentioned, but I'm interested just the same)

Diana / Wonder Woman (Not my thing personally, but -- Wonder Woman. Iconic.)
Zatanna (I am interested in her, I just don't know anything about her yet...)
Power Girl
Hawkgirl
Supergirl (She's had enough incarnations that one of them has to interest most fans.)
Katma Tui (the GL who trained John Stewart)
Killowog (hey, fanon says she's a she)

Selina / Catwoman (I don't follow Selina's adventures well enough to second windwoodrose's characterisation of her, but I have heard much the same description from other people who are reading Catwoman.)
Talia Head (currently occupying a similarly grey moral middle ground)

Lady Shiva Woosan (Not a good guy, though seeing her next to Cheshire over the last few issues of Birds of Prey has made her look a lot 'gooder' by comparison. In any case, a woman who can defeat Batman hand-to-hand? Yeah, interesting.)
Cheshire (I find her annoying, but I suspect I'd be intrigued if I got to see more than a couple issues of other people's books with her in them.)
Poison Ivy (not interesting to me personally, but objectively? interesting)
Harley Quinn (ditto)


Plenty there to choose from, I'd say. And somewhere there's a site all about the women of the DC universe -- I think liviapenn pointed me to it originally, back when speculation started about female heroes who might join the Justice League cast next season. Also, have a look at Women of Gotham.