A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several
years before the Gulf War, and 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.
She approached one of the women for an explanation. "This is
marvelous," said the journalist. "What enabled women here to
achieve this reversal of roles?"
The Kuwaiti women replied, "Land mines."
