1. I would say Game of Thrones does a good job with gender diversity. Although there are several powerful male characters, there are also many powerful female characters as well. Both are represented equally. You won't find the common trope where the male will come and save the day for the female. Instead you have characters like Danny, Arya and Cersi (just a few out of the MANY characters in GoT) who take care of themselves and don't need men to come and save them. Yes, there are powerful men in the show as well, but women are definitely also represented in my opinion too.
However when it comes to racial diversity, Game of Thrones fails. The TV show was based off of George R. Martins novels, and he even admits that his books don't have enough racial diversity even though its set in a fantasy world. In the show all of the main characters (and as stated before, there are a lot of main characters) are white. There is only one black character I can think of at the moment who's been in multiple episodes, and he is a pirate (of course the black guy is going to be a pirate, right?) and he is more of a minor/side character. Another side character, Shay, isn't white, but she's just Tyrions (one of the main characters) lover. Even though she does have a strong personality, in the end she is portrayed as a bitch who betrays her lover.
Representation of gender and races is very important because it's not healthy for kids of color to see only white people, or girls to see only boys on their TV screens. TV and movies should represent what people are really like, and not just what looks good.
2. I think there are a few stereotypes in game of thrones, but The Khaleesis/Dannys story line in Game of Thrones, really uses the common "white savior" trope. First Danny changes the "savaged and colored" Khal Drogo into a sensitive and good man. Then she goes on to "save' all the colored people who are poorly treated. There was actually a lot of controversy about a specific image in one episode.
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