Zakia Zaki is killed

Zakia Zaki was the director of a private radio station in Afghanistan.
She "had been involved in women’s rights advocacy and political activity." She was hot seven times as she slept beside her 10 month old youngest child of her six children. She was killed just six days after Shekiba Sanga Amaaj (22 years old, a television reporter) was killed.
I seem to remember that one of the reasons that we went into Afghanistan was to "liberate the women" under the Taliban laws. I took a look at RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) and found that the plight of women in Afghanistan hasn't changed very much. On 25 September, Safiye Amajan, head of the Kandahar regional Department of Women's Affairs (DoWA) was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle.
Here is a quote from Amnesty International's 2007 report on Afghanistan: "Human rights defenders, many of them women, faced harassment, intimidation and in at least one case murder, as they sought to protect human rights. It became more dangerous to speak out. Schools were burned down and teachers were attacked and killed by those opposed to the government and the education of girls."
There exists a documentary on the political life of women in Afghanistan which features Zakia Zaki, who was just killed.
What is happening? I keep seeing reports that say that the general well being of a people is linked to the health and freedom of their women. Then I keep seeing women killed, imprisoned, not allowed, by the men, to go to school, to drive, to exist peacefully. In the NYT this morning the reporting of Zakia Zaki's death was reported. There was also a long article, mostly "humorous", about menopause. During my experience of menopause there is nothing humorous about the burning out of impurities. It seems a time when we, post menopausal women, can compress the rage and do outrageous things.