I'm a mother, wife, and software developer who spent 3 years in the MMO industry, 1 year in the web marketing industry, 1 year in race tracking via map apis, and currently work as a back end / front end developer for a btb / btc website.
Lately I spend my time hacking ruby, rails, jQuery and other things.
A good programmer can work in any language given the the proper resources. I believe knowing where to look to figure out how to do something in a language, and then being able to use that information, is more important than rote knowledge about a particular language.