At the same time, remittances enable women to rent more land (Shahriari and others, 2009) and thus become wealthier. This is even more important as women in Tajikistan rarely own land, when they do own land, their land plots are smaller than those of men (Khitarishvili, 2016, p. 13). There are contradictory findings on die influence of male migration on die gender gap in labour force participation.