these results have some critical policy implications indeed reducing gender inequality in social institutions increases the probability to have female migrant and then to benefit from its positive effect on gender equality promotion this paper assesses the twoway linkages between gendered migration and discriminatory social norms leading to relevant findings on the interaction between social institutions gender and southsouth migration while gender inequality in social norms constrains female emigration it has no effect on male emigration suggesting that men and womens incentives to migrate differ