changes in womens position are measured by three indicators womens decisionmaking capacity girls education and the practice of dowry findings show that male outmigration not only raise the standard of living of their leftbehind kin through the injection of remittances but also modify their social behaviour through the diffusion of secular ideas into the traditional values of the sending communities moreover hadi also shows that households with female migrant members are more concerned with the education of daughters in uttar pradesh paris et al