I'd personally like to see more gender non-conforming roles in societies.
In a society with magic or space tech, why does there need to be a coded gender for certain jobs?
This goes for 'character classes' too. I'd love to see more healer archetypes that are cis male, or wizard types that are black or brown without relying on stereotypes.
I'd also like to see more of that in occupations too. Why not have a union of earth magic construction workers who happen to be mostly women in one city?
What about the rest of you? What cool things would you live to see in sci-fi/fantasy?
Say what you will about The Hunger Games, Katniss isn't the Chosen One who single handedly topples the evil government. An organized proletarian uprising does all the work, while she never does much more than act as its mascot, and everyone knows it.
(Also her hubby and sister are named after Bread and Roses, separation of labor is how the government keeps the working class under control, it's a much more Lefty book than people realize).
I get what your saying, but counterpoint, I'm not going to use any YA novels as theory. I'm still crying over losing Harry Potter.