Female migration and remittances in the Dominican Republic
Posted September 7th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Latin America, Migration, Women's IssuesGender, Remittances and Development: The Case of Women Migrants from Vicente Noble, Dominican Republic (PDF), based on a UN-INSTRAW study that looked at migration from a gender perspective, finds that money earned and sent by women gives them greater power as decision-makers, but that traditional gender roles persist in the home.
