Destination of International Female Migrant Workers

In this article, the author conducted a study on international female labour migration to examine the underlying key factor that results in female workers preferring to migrate to certain countries in the world and not to others. The study focused on females who migrated from developing Asian countries with poor economic conditions, and compared regions with the most female international migrants (Northern, Southern, and Western Europe) to regions with the least female international migrants (North Africa and Arab States). Comparisons revealed that the regions experiencing a high influx of female migrants had the lowest gender gap in the workplace while the other regions had greater gender inequality. This correlation led the author to conclude that female workers prefer to migrate to those countries which have gender equality in the workplace.