Fw: gender roles in Kuwait

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> > This sounds about right. For this we sent our troops in 1991!

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> > Subject: gender roles in Kuwait

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> > 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.

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