There really are. It’s kind of crazy.
Japan pretty much rules for female bassists. Not in any particular order:
Kiyoshi
Miki Furukawa
Fumi
F-Chopper Koga
Juna Serita
Yuki Obuchi
Misa
so many. Too many others to list.
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All right trying again
Thanks!
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It worked!
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To add your female bassists youtuber list, there’s the 2 Julia’s.
Julia Hofer from Thomann’s: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomannsGuitarsBasses/featured
Julia Przybysz from juliaplaysgroove: https://www.youtube.com/c/juliaplaysgroove19/featured
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I love all of this!!!
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Another excellent aspect is that their extended bands are all so damn good. Everyone in Band-Maid is a top notch musician, all music school grads or dropouts IIRC. Just solid straight metal, with a bassist that can more than keep up with the (excellent) guitars, and a really unique dual-vocalist thing that just works.
Same level of talent for Gacharic Spin (F-Chopper’s band); their side projects too (Doll$boxx is Gacharic Spin + Fuki from Unlucky Morpheus). Metallic Spin is hilarious.
CQ is incredible, following on from Tokyo Shoegazer. Supercar was more or less the original '90s indie band in Japan and Miki Furukawa’s solo work continues to be great. Polysics is still cranking out stuff on the regular, totally Devo. Etc etc etc. Very talented scene overall and lots of women owning the bass.
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Gail Ann Dorsey playing with David Bowie
Ida Nielsen
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Yeah Kiyoshi is amazing. Cranking out videos on her channel right now too, just posted a gear rundown.
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I’ll have a listen later @howard.
I’m supposed to be having a Skype meeting with my shrink but I forgot and have been enjoying a few Jimmy Beans whilst rewiring my old Harley this arvo. Could be an interesting meeting 
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hahahaha!
She added english subtitles if you turn them on.
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Need to learn me some slang, @Mac - who or what is an arvo??
Now back to the topic (for @Regina) : didn’t we have a thread for female bass players already?? Methinks we do, but probably OK to re-start it here…
Was gonna mention Ida Nielsen (who played with Prince), but that is already done I see.
Then there is also Mohini Dey, Esperanza Spalding, Meshell Ndegeocello, Mai Leisz, and recently KT Chang from Elephant Gym:
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Arvo = afternoon in Australian
Joerg @joergkutter👍
Now your getting to learn our language 
Cheers Brian
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Thanks, Brian! I had a hunch, but better to get some confirmation with slang terms before I’ll use them wrongly and embarrass myself 
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Thanks @TNKA36
I’m organising horses and opening the Great Northern beer now as we seem to have a Jim Bean drought
Best of it is I’m sat drinking with a cop
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Kim Gordon hasn’t been mentioned yet. Now I remember that I listened to quite a bit of Sonic Youth when I was still contemplating buying a bass and thinking that’s the kind of music I’d like to do.
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Good call, Sonic Youth is great.
Another not mentioned yet: Sara Lee, Gang of Four’s second bassist, who did a ton of session work as well.
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Sonic Youth reminded me of Shonen Knife, an Japanese punk band that started in 83. Sonic Youth listed them as one of their influences. And they’re still going.
Ritsuko is alot of fun on bass. They’re a fun concert.
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They are fantastic. Major influence on many of the Grunge bands - Cobain talked about them a lot.
They are basically the Japanese Girl Ramones. Still touring too. They are playing a gig tonight, in fact.
Probably my favorite:
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