ABSTRACT
This chapter examines female migration between 1900 and 1973. It aims to link the migration of women with that of men, with some reference to the sexual division(s) of labor. As with male migration, there were important differences between female migration from rural Mossi and from other rural areas. Whereas rural Mossi women tended to remain in rural Mossi land, only about half the women from other rural areas moved within this zone. According to the National Migration Survey, international migration was not a major phenomenon among women in the early years of the century. As in the case of internal mobility, Mossi and non-Mossi women displayed different patterns of international migration. Mossi women are tended to move to places other than Ghana or Cote d'Ivoire—"other international destinations" in the terminology of the survey. In general, migration to international destinations other than Ghana or Cote d'Ivoire was of less importance for women than for men in 1900-1931.
