The female characters in Naruto only exist to support the male characters. [Naruto]

In my opinion, Tsunade is the best-written female character in the series by a wide margin, but there's no competition when all the other female characters are garbage.

Sakura? Obsessed with Sasuke. Became an inferior copy of Tsunade.

Ino? Obsessed with Sasuke, then interested in Sai because of a phrase calling her beautiful (the opposite of what he felt), since he finds her ugly.

Hinata? Unilaterally obsessed with Naruto because he helped her once when they were 5 years old.

Mei? Obsessed with having a husband to marry.

Kurenai? Existed only to lose to Itachi and be the mother of Asuma's child.

Etc.

Of course, Tsunade also suffers from the cliché of "my brother and boyfriend died, I give up everything and will abandon my duty and fall into depression and drunkenness for 30 whole years" despite being a Sannin. What's quite a common cliché is that female characters exist to support male characters.

Comparatively, Hiruzen lost his wife and friends and led the village for decades. Kakashi went crazy with PTSD, but moved on like most Shinobi who also lost someone important to them at one time or another.

I think the story partially adopted the sexism of "women are too emotional to perform such a profession in comparison with male characters."