I personally never thought Luke used the Force in Episode IV and never thought Anakin used the Force in Episode I. I think I might be the only one to think this way on this site.

So because of this, I think Rey being as powerful as she was in TFA was absurd. And it continues through TLJ.

TFA:

mind trick out of her ***
beating Kylo Ren’s force pull
beating Kylo Ren period.

TLJ:

it bothered me a little bit how she was so instantly connected to the force in the scene where Luke explains it to her, but at the same time I think it’s not a valid complaint.
she beats Luke
she kicks everyone’s *** in the throne room for no reason
she can lift 10x more rocks than Luke even after Luke had several training sessions and Luke had an extremely high potential to be powerful with the force too.

Edit: also, in-universe Star Wars always seemed to me like a very equal place in terms of sexism. Neither men nor women have any duty or are viewed in a certain way simply because of the fact that they’re men/women. You see both as equals in all films.

But I still think women were severely misrepresented in the OT, and in the PT, to lesser extent.