All About Women (Chinese: 女人不坏; pinyin: Nǚrén bú huài), originally titled She Ain't Mean and Not All Women Are Bad, is a 2008 Chinese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Tsui Hark. Starring Kitty Zhang, Zhou Xun and Gwei Lun-mei, the film tells a series of interwoven stories as it focuses on the lives of three women and their romantic relationships. Zhou plays a clumsy woman who secretly develops a pheromone drug patch, which serves as a plot device for the film; Kwai plays a punk rock band singer, who is also a boxer and novelist; and Zhang plays a wealthy attractive woman.

Originally set to be an updated version of Tsui's Peking Opera Blues, All About Women was shot in Beijing, China, and was released in China and Hong Kong on 11 December 2008. The film was later released in Singapore on 8 January 2009.

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All About Women was a proposed Canadian television series on women's issues which was developed by CBC Television in 1972 but never produced for broadcast.

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The series was planned as 13 half-hour episodes for broadcast on Thursday nights beginning June 1972. Margot Lane was scheduled to host the series, produced by Diederik D'Ailly.

Knowlton Nash, CBC's head of news and public affairs, expressed concerns that the series gave excessive emphasis on sexuality, noting the subject material discussed by scheduled guests which included pornographic actors and people with various sexual orientations. On 2 June 1972, he cancelled the series prior to its 29 June debut. A year later, the CBC completed production and airing of a new women's issues series, Ms!, featuring Lane as host.

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