Firstly, remittances and other benefits for the household and the community make the benefits of female emigration more obvious, which in turn creates incentives to increase the women's ability to migrate through improvement in women's access to opportunities, resources and power. For example, women who send remittances gain more respect within their family and community (Jolly and Reeves, 2005). Moreover, parents who rely on their daughters' remittances are less likely to force them to return home to marry (Temin et al.,