I've read a couple books with strong female leads- but I've forgotten what they were lol. Everything seems to just slowly deteriorate into male > female. Very few things I've read or watched kept a female lead strong, or didn't punt her to the side.
Like Dragonrider's of Pern, before it got to sue-ish in later versions. There's one real ***** of a character, Leesa I think her name was.
Then her son got paired up with you guessed it, classic rape sue. /sigh.
Basically when a person bonds with a dragon in the pern world it's like a soul bond, rider dies, dragon dies, dragon dies, rider usually dies or lives on half dead. So it's like ****ing duh if you're a woman you're gonna bond with one of only 2 female dragons. The gold. Or the green. She bonded a green and they're like cats
DD
and it's like /facepalm and I gagged and never read a newer work again.