The domestic help created a quandary for their employers. On the one hand, the “Missus” hated to be gossiped about. On the other hand, she got the skinny on her neighbors from the housemaid and cook.

The increasing number of married women who engage in paid jobs in the last few decades has heightened the demand for domestic servants in several Nigerian homes. Research has shown that live-in ...

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On a fateful day at a wryly coloured bungalow in Awawu, Mushin, Lagos, Toyin Aribilola, mother of a six-month-old baby, had just finished her household chores. She decided to have a nap, but she was ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of many of Latin America’s household maids, leaving them without work or government assistance or effectively trapping them inside the ...

Bangladeshi cricket star Shahadat Hossain is facing charges over allegations that he tortured an 11-year-old domestic servant. Hossain has been formally charged for "physically torturing" female ...

Unflattering Bridget caricatures regularly appeared in national newspapers, stereotyping working-class Irish maids as incompetent and liable to cause havoc in middle-class homes. Cartoons frequently ...