To get a sense of what kind of legacy Benazir Bhutto, the Muslim world's first female leader, left behind for the women of Pakistan, look no further than those who were contending for the top spot in the political party she led.
There were her son, her husband, and two of her top deputies _ four people with one thing in common: They're all men. The job eventually went to her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Zardari, with her husband acting as a regent for the time being.
From the day Bhutto came to power nearly two decades ago, many in the West eagerly cast her as an icon for Muslim women, a role she never shied away from playing. And now her slaying in a suicide …
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