>> Barbara Walters of 20/20 (USA-ABC Television) 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. 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.
> > Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you
now
> > 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."


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