Gender equality in afghanistan

A heartwarming story of the advances of women in achieving equality throughout the world . . .
Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Afghanistan several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet behind their husbands. She returned to Afghanistan recently and observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives.

Ms. Walters approached one of the women and said, "This is marvelous. Can you tell the free world just what enabled women here to achieve this reversal of roles?"

"Land mines," said the Afghan woman.