kanaiaupuni studies whether the determinants of migration differ by sex using mexicous data she finds that highskilled women are more likely to migrate than highskilled men or low and moderate skilled women this may be explained by higher gender discrimination faced by women and few occupational rewards in their home country and thus they benefit more than men from migrating internationally whether their skill level is high enough to allow them to meet the job demand recently baudasse and bazillier suggest that nonwage motivations for emigration include gender equality in the workplace