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About the Documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a four-hour PBS primetime documentary film and national broadcast event inspired by the widely ...
Oct 1, 2012 · Half the Sky: Directed by Maro Chermayeff. With America Ferrera, Nicholas Kristof, Diane Lane, Dipti Mehta. HALF THE SKY is a passionate call-to-arms, urging us not only to bear witness to the plight of the world's women, but to help to transform their oppression into opportunity.
- Maro Chermayeff
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- 3 min
The film is inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s nonfiction eponymous book. The film itself examines complex moral and cultural issues that are addressed by women from within the community who have experience with those issues. Half the Sky aired as two two-hour segments on PBS in the United States. While it mainly focuses on and ...
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Sep 30, 2012 · Half the Sky Meg Ryan, center, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where this film focuses on sex trafficking. The plight of women in several nations is chronicled Monday and Tuesday nights on PBS stations ...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. A film by Maro Chermayeff. A passionate call—to—arms, urging us not only to bear witness to the plight of the world’s women, but to help to transform their oppression into opportunity. Our future is in the hands of women everywhere. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression ...
4,850+ Quick-Read Plot Summaries. Downloadable PDFs. Subscribe for $3 a Month. The book, whose title derives from an ancient Chinese proverb that translates as “women hold up half the sky,” meticulously documents some of the worst abuses, including sex trafficking, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality.
H alf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning husband-and-wife journalists Nicholas D. Kristof ’82 and Sheryl WuDunn, M.B.A. ’86, is more than just journalism. It’s a tract that’s unashamedly intended to outline a problem and convince its readers to take action to solve it.
