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As BM has just said, “it’s like that in real life” is not a sufficient reasoning. It’s a cop-out, an excuse to maintain the status quo. Perhaps “actiony” people do tend to be male in real life, but why does that need to be reflected in fiction?
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You talk as if film makers have some reactionary agenda. No one is saying that current gender roles have to be reflected in fiction, but they undoubtedly have an influence on it. When people write gangsters, or secret agents, or soldiers, or whatever, do you think the fact that they are more likely to make them male is due to some desire for the status quo, or because their perceptions of such people are shaped by reality?
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And on a deeper note, why is there that expectation in the first place?
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It's little more than a century since women's suffrage? Social change happens slowly? Whatever it is, it's probably a bit more complex than 'duh media'.