Barbara Walters on gender role reversal in Kuwait

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com
Mon Feb 5 13:39:52 PST 2001


This is a truly "heartwarming" story of the Progress of Women: At 12:10 PM 2/5/01 -0800, you wrote:

> A heartwarming story of the advances of women in achieving equality

> throughout the world Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kuwait

> several years before the Gulf War. She noted then that women customarily

> walked about 10 feet behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait 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 Kuwaiti woman.

Forwarded to me by a workmate. -Brad Mayer



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list