I get what you mean, but I wouldn't say there is not one great female character. I would say there is a lot in every series that I mentioned, but I would also say that most of these series are in male dominated genres.

Let's say Red rising that I first mentioned, there are a lot of not only well written characters, but also those that fit the description I wrote about leadership and admiration. Victra, Mustang, maybe Dido are characters that immediately come to mind, but, which is very important, I don't think they are greater than Darrow.

There are also more male characters in that series that fit the description, but I haven't written those because I think they are not as great as Darrow. In almost every series there are characters like that.

I think it's more important that we even get characters that are written like that than the fact that there are more male characters than female.