female migration is a crucial serious sociocultural loss depriving individual families and georgian society as a whole of womens natural contributions for example in the th century in the dominican republic due to social stigma attached to women working outside of the household the husband preferred and encouraged women to seek employment in the us where it was deemed acceptable even in the dominican diaspora grassmuck and pessar in addition to preferences for gender equality this attraction of lower discriminatory social institutions in the destination country may also be explained by lower discrimination in its labour market reflected in greater working opportunities for women martin