This book examines the socio-economic status of domestic helps in terms of wages, work security and their economic contribution in the family. It also delineates how these women combine their professional work with domestic responsibilities as wives, mothers and daughters.

It makes an attempt to highlight the living conditions of women domestic helps, their education and their children’s education, rate of wages, their exploitation, relation between them and their masters and their common and unheard problems. It also includes interesting case studies, and comparison of socio-economic status of domestic workers with other working females.