Ann 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:
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Funny, when I first heard it after the Gulf war in 1990 it was the other way round with the woman reporter astounded at the turn around with the women walking ten paces in front of the men.
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