And then there is also Judith, not mentioned here. 
"Hero" is an ambiguous concept. Too often heroes, are "pedestalized", like Jesus' mother - robbed of the feminine reality and, as well, the ordinariness within which real virtue and courage are lived...and surpassed.  They become lost in someone's message.
They frequently become the "scapegoat" for legitimizing one's staying within a stereotype - "She did it. It within my grasp. So I don't have to". Or, "She's a hero. Too bad they found out her secret failing". Or, "She's a hero in her failure to overcome the resistance - of men and other women. So I won't either".
As an old male fogy, I think you are right that women, as with us all, need true hero leaders. But I also think that women need heroes like Aibileen, in "The Help".  Women who eschew the cosmetic persona and myth and who are at home in their minds and bodies and who discern their right to think and to be peers, who recognize real leadership and who stand.