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one factor influencing female migration to urban areas is availability of domestic work which does not require 
specialized skills or degrees ((easy entry))
- altho recently see growth of labor bureaus specializing in servants, most get their 1st job thru an acquaintance & not too particular about 1st employer;
most come when still a teenager & ave. education. about grade 3; come w/ out the skills needed to work in a "gedongan"(upper class) household 
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many work for lower-middle class 
(relatively poor) families when 1st come, then begin the process of changing jobs many times till either find a better situation or marry 
when marry tend to marry boys whose status not so different from theirs and work at lowest level jobs in businesses & govn offices 
servant marriages tend to be unstable & many [[symbol for female]] servants have been married & divorced several times as become older often settle down with one family & more stable situation; when young servants go home every year regularly at Lebaran, but drops off as get older & own parents die, old acquaintances no longer there, & not known to the younger kampong people
in old age servants face problem once no longer physically strong
acc. to Indon. ideals, they should be allowed to live out their last year with their employer, even tho no longer productive
if this ideal breaks down, women are in danger due to lack of opportunity to save
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if go home to village problem they are already used to & identify w/ gedongan life including electricity, TV, water from a tap, clean dry rooms, etc.

in govn. rest house for beggars at Pasar Rebo was found that 20 of 27 [[symbol for female]] inhabitants picked up off the streets of Jak. were former house servants; probable that former charges, i.e. gedongan children, how all in high places
no. of majikans who try to give servants some guarantee for better future by letting them attend courses, giving capital for small enterprise ventures, etc. minimal
most adhere to to the believe that one