Dragons == women is much more obvious in the later books.

(I have read all the books that currently exist; I just synecdochized them to save time. That may have been unclear.)

I'd like them more if there were also more women being women

How do you feel about characters like Jane and Emily Roland, or Catherine Harcourt? Or do they not count because they are women within the Corps and therefore not bound by historical rules of society (no stigma attached to children out of wedlock, girls preferred to boys, etc.)?

Or female dragons, like Iskierka?