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Getting The Hang Of It
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WOMEN
WHO KNOW THEIR PLACE (AND THEIR HUSBAND'S)
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 walk even further back behind their husbands,
and seem appear happy to maintain the old custom.
Ms . Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you continue 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.'
The 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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