Barbara Walters of 60 Minutes USA) did a story on gender roles in Kabul

several years before the Afghan conflict.

She noted that women customarily walked about ten paces behind their

husbands.

She returned to Kabul recently and observed that the men now walked several

paces behind their wives.

Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women and said. "This is

marvellous. Can you tell the free world just what enabled women to achieve

this reversal of roles?"



"Land mines," said the woman.