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> MAINTAINING A DISTANCE OF 5 PACES BEHIND...
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> Barbara Walters of 20/20 (USA-ABC Television) did a story on gender
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> roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan Conflict.
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> She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands.
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> She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk
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> behind their husbands. From Ms.
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> Walters's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive
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> Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind
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> their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom.
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> Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do
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> you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so
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> desperately to change?"
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> The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without
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> hesitation, said, "Land mines."
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: BEHIND EVERY MAN IS A SMART WOMAN