Woman Who Knows Her Place
Woman Who Knows Her 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 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 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."
MORAL OF THE STORY: Behind every man is a smart woman.