What role does stigma play for domestic workers?

What will be an ideal response?


Stigma as a perceived occupational hazard of domestic service emerged during the initial contact and throughout most of the interviews. The stigma attached to domestic service punctuated the interviews. I knew that many women hid their paid household labor from the government, but I did not realize that this secrecy encompassed neighbors, friends, and even extended family members. Several women gave accounts that revealed their families’ efforts to conceal their employment as domestics. Children frequently stated that their mothers “just did housework,” which was ambiguous enough to define them as full-time homemakers and not necessarily as domestics.

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