Mankiw just posted a link to the latest ranking of most influential economists from IDEAS. There are no women in the top 130. Then I see Asli Demirguc-Kunt at 134, Carmen Reinhart at 142, and Ellen McGrattan at 148. Their research is in macro/monetary topics. Though there are quite a few male labor economists listed, the first female I see is Janet Currie at 214.
I don't believe CSWEP (comm. on the status of women in the economics profession) discusses this issue of field segregation, but it sure should. If equal influence is a goal, we either need more women to pursue money/macro, or we need other fields to have more overall influence on the discipline.
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