The hero's journey (for women):
1. Be born awesome and amazing
2. Horrible men/the patriarchy hold you back from realizing how awesome and amazing you are
3. Push back against the barriers that those horrible and oppressive men have imposed on you and discover that you were amazing all along without having to put any real work in.
See how bad that type of story is? That is why so many female main character stories suck.
@WashedOutGundamPilot Looking back at those books, I found that they did not age all that well. Reading them as a (literal) child was fine, but there are quite a few issues that just do not work all that well as an adult.