More Than Half the Sky

Streaming video - 2010

This film documents a unique development project that bought social work practice to rural women in China. The project was initiated by the Faculty of Social Work of Canada's University of Manitob in collaboration with China’s Women’s University and the Women’s Federation of China. Over a six-year period, they introduced rural social work service models in three Chinese provinces. The priority in each region was similar – the training of trainers to reduce gender inequality by addressing the specific needs of rural women...More than Half the Sky portrays some of these efforts in Sichuan province.