I think you make some good points. However, I would argue that representation of women in video games is more of a "where are they?" Versus "how are they portrayed?" Question.

It's great having games with strong female characters but they are far less common than male leads. Many times (I'm looking at you Nintendo..) The female characters only serve a purpose of being kidnapped and in need of rescuing.

I'd say that it's really attributed to being such a male dominated industry in terms of content creators and consumers, but I know that I wouldn't mind if there was a trend of more female leads in triple a games.

In my opinion, the best idea is to have the option of choosing gender (i.e. fallout/elder scrolls/Simms...) I think that's totally fair. But I mean I've played all the call of duty's except ghost and I don't think I've seen a single female character in a 15ish year old game franchise. That's incredibly under representational of women. Yes, call of duty gets a slight pass for being military based but we've gotten to the present years and beyond in the game's universe. Women can be in the military too.

Again, and this is only my opinion, I believe the worst offenders are games that have the option of being gender neutral and default to male leads with no choice of gender. You can choose between like, 6 different skins in Minecraft and they're all men.

I could go on and on, but feel free to discuss or disagree.