Women Who Know Their Place

[Bobbie]

Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles
in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict.
She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their
husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk
behind their husbands. From Ms. Walter's vantage point, despite the
overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms. Walters approached one woman and asked, "Why are do seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?"

The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, "Land mines."