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...black labor that did the building. Or a liberal white says, "Really, you can't imagine how many of them have told me they wouldn't want to be ruled by their own people." And you realize the only black she has ever talked to at length is her maid...
...refusal by so many South African whites to realize that black South Africans have needs and desires just as the whites do--is perhaps the most disturbing element of the gap between the races. The complete failure to understand that the black woman who works as the family maid might like running water in the servants' quarters, or that the blacks' real problem in South Africa is not that they are always having babies...
...Washington businessman turned down an all-expenses-paid trip to Egypt with his wife "because our maid insisted on going home to Ireland that month." A San Francisco mother who is working for her B.A. plans her classes around her housekeeper's schedule. While many people tend to tidy up before their cleaning women arrive, a New York communications manager goes that act one better: after he has a party, he hires a cleaning service to straighten up the apartment before his regular maid arrives. Liberal and feminist sentiments also make some employers feel guilty about hiring others...
...household work as a flexible form of employment. Their families are not always pleased. "My aunt babbles on about my editing and my traveling, but she never mentions my cleaning," says one part-time editor. After quitting a managerial job at Joseph Magnin, Taryn Stenman, 22, worked as a maid for six months and found that she made so many connections as a result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People can use this type of job as a steppingstone," she says. "It's a fast way to make money...
...which, according to Owner Lou Williams, looks for employees with stability, literacy and shared values with the clients. Although Broom Hilda charges customers $6 an hour and pays its workers only $3, it supplies all necessary equipment, handles Social Security forms and offers insurance benefits. Other services, like Mini Maid in Atlanta, send out crews of three or four women who for $25 to $28 can clean a two-bedroom house in 20 to 25 minutes...