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WOMEN WHO KNOW "THEIR  PLACE"
Several years before the Afghan  conflict, 
Miss Walters, a journalist did a story on gender roles in  Kabul. 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 Miss  Walters' vantage  point, despite the overthrow of the 
oppressive Taliban  regime, the women  now seem to walk even further back 
behind their husbands, and are happy to  maintain the old custom.
Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and  asked, "Why do you now 
seem happy with an old custom that you once tried  so desperately to  change? 
"The woman looked Miss Walters  straight in the eyes, and without hesitation 
said,"Land Mines."  
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