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WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR
PLACE
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 five paces
behind their husbands.
She recently returned to
Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their
husbands. From Miss Walters' 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.
Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women
and asked,
'Why do you now seem happy
with an old custom
that you once tried so
desperately to change?'
The woman looked Miss Walters
straight in the eyes,
and without hesitation
said,
'Land
Mines.'
Moral of the story is (no matter where you
go)
BEHIND EVERY MAN,
THERE'S A SMART WOMAN
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