Synopsis
One woman in China kills herself every four minutes. With the highest female suicide rate in the world, China's women talk candidly about the pressures on them, particularly those left to tend homes and look after children in rural areas while husbands and sons are working towards the "economic miracle" in the cities.
- Programme: China
- Episode: 2: Women of the Country
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2006
- Geography
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