INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST

An investigative journalist went to Afghanistan to study the culture

and was shocked to discover that women were made to walk

ten paces behind the men.

She asked her guide why and he said,

"Because they are considered of lesser status."

Outraged the journalist went home.

A year later she returned covering violence in the region

and was surprised to see the women walking ten paces ahead.

She turned to her guide and this time asked,

"What has changed?"

The guide answered,

"Land mines."