Bingowings said:
Women wear makeup and clothes and have babies (without sex) at a push they work in libraries. Alien women can twirl swords but only if the wear less clothes or say nothing.Padme and Leia were senators and shot people left and right.
Padme’s main action was to wear makeup and clothes (she shoots a bit in two sequences in two movies and kicks a spidercat in the nuts).
Leia is arguably the only reasonably explored female character in the series (even more than the Mos Eisley pea-strainer or the little old lady that doesn’'t sell much in Mos Espa).