“GIRLS with bachelor`s degrees are mopping floors for a salary as low as Rs5,000-6,000 per month,” says Ahsan Ali from Maid in Pakistan, an agency that provides domestic help to households in Karachi. “We mostly service Defence, then Pakistan Employees Cooperative Housing Society, followed by Nazimabad… all the posh areas,” he says, explaining that they have divided household chores into different categories. Cleaning, washing and ironing are one category, cooking and washing dishes belongs to another category whereas babysitting is a third. The wages of each category are different, depending on the skill level and fluency of the maid. While the lowest monthly salary that a maid of Maid in...
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