Slapstick and women
It is more rare to see women in a slapstick role because of the Double Standard seen in things like Beauty Is Never Tarnished, Wouldn't Hit a Girl, or Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male. Also, due to all of these things, the women who have this happen to them are more likely to be amusingly injured by other women, their own clumsiness, or events beyond anybody's control than by men. On occasions when a male does comically harm a female, it will almost invariably be by accident, and the woman will often retaliate by doling out some slapstick right back at him, considerably more painful or over-the-top than what happened to her. A male character deliberately harming a female character is far less likely to be played for laughs than the other way around.
With the passage of time, we already have seen and will continue to see increasingly fewer restrictions on the use of women in slapstick. Even being physically attractive does not guarantee immunity, since the Brainless Beauty is always fair game. If the character is an Iron Butt Monkey, however, she'll tend to be a lot tougher if she's a woman than if she's a man. A woman who gets poked in the eye with a sharp stick will likely experience only a (temporary) loss of dignity; a man who gets poked in the eye with a sharp stick will have to wear an eyepatch. And it's still quite rare to see a female character comedically killed unless she's particularly repellent.
