Females exist in the real world!!

This is exactly one of my major gripes with Disney, and with pretty much any film or video.

There's probably a corollary between the paucity of women in live action film, in animation filmmaking, and the lack of the kinds of female roles I, too, would like to see: "just characters"--taken for granted in the story in the best sense of the term. No heavy-handed tokenism, just there because of the fact that females exist in, well, "real life", and our characters--be they cars, rats or fish--have to be relatable to the audience.

See also this rejection letter for a woman applying to Disney and a great letter from Geena Davis