Role Reversal

A heartwarming story of the advances of women in achieving equality
throughout the world. Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kabul
several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily
walked about 10 paces behind their husbands. She returned to Kabul recently
and observed that the men now walk several paces behind their wives.
Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and said, "This is
marvelous. Can you tell the free world just what enabled women to achieve
this reversal of roles?"

"Land mines," said the woman.