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WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR PLACE

A point of view.

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 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 an 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.'

Moral of the story is: (no matter what language you speak and where
you go)
"BEHIND EVERY MAN, THERE'S A SMART WOMAN"

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