THE BOOM IN HOUSEMAIDS
MOST Americans think of housemaids as they visualize the noble redskina monument in the old days but a vanished American in 1957. Nothing could be farther from the truth. After a decade of decline, the number of household helpers is rising again, has climbed 50% in the last few years to 1,971,000 chambermaids, laundresses, cooks and cleaning women, another 50,000 butlers and valetsto say nothing of that uniquely American profession, the dollar-an-hour baby sitter. Today's maid shortage is a scarcity of financial plenty. For every U.S. woman who has...
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