WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR PLACE

Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul,
Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that
women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands. She
recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban
regime, the women now seem happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you
now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so hard to
change?'

The woman replied "Land mines."