Male or female, it doesn't matter to transfer Hidden Abilities anyway (it does in Gen V but not in Gen VI). But if you want to transfer the Hidden Ability with a male, of course, you need to breed it with a Ditto (because if you breed it with another pokemon, the egg will contain the same pokemon as the female one) as it's the only pokemon that can give you an egg which will contain the same pokemon as the male one.
The only difference is a female have more probabilities to transfer it (I think it's a 80% for female and 20% for the male rate, or something like that).
Just downloaded the three starters with my japanese 3DS, thanks for the info about the distribution/codes
Edit : Either I'm just unlucky or we can't transfer yet the Reckless HA during breeding. Because I did like ~30 eggs and didn't managed to transfer it once (even tried to use a female). Funny though, first egg was a shiny
Then, I tried Serperior to check, and managed to transfer it's Contrary HA with the first egg I tried.
Haven't tried Samurott yet.
Edit 2 : Managed to transfer Samurott HA with two eggs so maybe I'm just completely unlllcucky with Emboar.
Edit 3 : it seems the hidden ability of Tepig will change during evolution, like some others pokemon.