Andean peasant women are recruited into varied types of work both in rural and urban areas. Recruiting agents (enganchadores) and family members are particularly important in placing the women in labor markets (ranging from the cities to the jungle) external to the peasant villages. However, recruitment into waged labor is contingent upon the role played by female labor in the maintenance of the rural household: the ages at which highland women migrate is conditioned by the sexual division of labor in the domestic unit. Recruitment into migration is thus an outcome of the interaction between the structure of labor markets and the division of labor within the peasant household.
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