That’s an interesting point. I think that is exactly why I do not like these particular writers. I really hate when the author seems to purposely torture or disempower their characters.

I also noticed that the female fantasy writers that I like (Diana Wynne Jones, Frances Hardinge, T. Kingfisher, Martha Wells, Miya Kazuki) do not do that. But they often belong to other literary traditions (many of them are YA writers, for example), and their influences are probably different.

I wonder if the writers you quoted may not have all been influenced by Ursula Le Guin. I think she was the first female science fiction writer to become famous, and probably had a lot of influence on many of the female SFF writers that came after her.