Female Archetypes in Game of Thrones 

Overall, the female characters in Game of Thrones are no smarter or stupider than the male characters; intelligence seems to be distributed randomly across the sexes in the series, as it is in real life. (Now that's progress!)
Keywords: game of thrones, female archetype, female stereotypes, arya stark, sansa stark, daenerys targaryen, cersei lannister, catelyn stark