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Gender stratification refers to the inequalities between women and men regarding wealth, power, and privilege. Gender is a socially structured principle and represents a hierarchical, asymmetrical, and unequal division between men and women. Gender stratification is a relatively new concept borne of the feminist perspective in social sciences, especially in sociology, around the 1970s. Gender stratification can be illustrated by the figures of unequal participation of women in the labor market, incomes, politics, and so on.

This chapter discusses the internal migration of young Albanian women to Tirana for educational purposes. Its aim is to investigate how is gender embedded with the process of migration of young women, and the effects of migration in shaping gendered subjectivities and gender relations. The chapter explores how young Albanian women use education as a platform for migration; how they mobilise social networks to achieve their migration objectives as well as to face the uncertainties in the city of destination. It also expands upon the paradox that embodies these women's migration process: migration is a way to escape from gender constraints and social control from kinship and community; however, in the city of destination they face gendered and sexualised prejudices and constraints that underlie the same mechanism than those they escaped from and put them in new forms of precarity and dependency.

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