Once again, people clucked their tongues, some with pity, others with sympathy, a rare few with empathy and most others with condescension or disgust. Once again, the index finger was drawn across the forehead in a continuous horizontal motion and the words, “It is her naseeb,” were uttered.

There’s no excuse for the insufficient coverage of a story like Sherbini’s. Why? In fact, details of the killing are not even easily available on the Internet. The UK’s Guardian was one of the few publications to publish a detailed story along with BBC that carried a short account of the incident.

It’s outrageous how often women, who play a pivotal role in family and community life, are forgotten as contributive members of their households and society. Their duties are restricted to child-rearing and keeping house rather than administrative duties like money management. Through movements such as microfinance, some of this power is respectfully returned to women. They are then able to focus this advantage toward improving their families, businesses and communities with education, budgeting and financial planning, allowing them to be powerful economic agents of change.