A rather different set of circumstances arise in the
instances of three young women from Ban Phon Hai in
Tulakhom district who had taken up work at the Dansavanh
Resort and become their families’ main income
earners (examples of ‘dutiful daughters’). Although
these young women were paid very little––just 200,000
kip (US$20) per month in one instance––and considerably
less than the going rate for agricultural work of
15,000 kip/day (US$1.50/day), each households’ survival
had come to depend on the income this work
generated. Far from escaping from the village like Mr.
Seng’s daughter, they had become critical to sustaining
the traditional, rural, subsistence system.