You have a 12.5% for a starter Pokémon to be female, so it's luck. Another method might be breeding it later and hope for a female.
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To breed males you need a ditto, which you can only get after beating the elite four.
(In case you don't know, you put the starter in the daycare with a ditto and after some amount of steps you'll get an egg of the female)
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You have to trade a starter to another Pokemon white or black game then trade the Pokemon back.
Yes, you do get to choose a starter Pokemon in Pokemon Black and White Versions.
It is one of the three starter Pokemon
yes when you are in the professor's lab
It's either a 1 in 7 or a 1 in 8 chance of getting a female starter. So you can try restarting until you get one.