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?”

Replied the Kuwaiti woman: “Land mines”