> 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