Benazir Bhutto:

I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

— Benazir Bhutto Contemporary

Pakistani PM

Context

Reflecting on challenges faced as a female leader.

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