Discrimination Against Domestic Workers

Domestic workers care about the society’s most valuable thing: the family. They are responsible for feeding, hygiene, the care of pets and plants etc. Many become a sort of second mother to the children. However, although they are an essential part for modern families, domestic workers are treated very badly and they are always discriminated as if they were slaves. People don’t value their work neither they respect their human rights. The discrimination and indifference in society towards domestic workers have their origin in the underestimation of the domestic workers. Therefore domestic workers suffer a lot of discrimination based on their lack of education, social class, appearance, to name a few.

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Many of the domestic works have a low income and have a family so they don’t buy luxuries things, only the necessary things. Therefore they wear plain things, but their plainness make the people judge them inside their work. That is why the employers prefer them to wear a uniform. However, if the domestic worker does not put their uniform correctly many of the employers get angry and scold them. This happens in the book The Help when Miss Leefot said to Aibileen, “I can’t have you serving us like that, with your—your legs showing!”(Stockett, 459). Miss Leefolt told Aibileen that, because Aibileen wasn’t wearing the uniform correctly since there was a lot of heat, so she didn’t put on her socks. However; Miss Leefolt thought that it was disrespectful. This means that Miss Leefolt didn’t tolerate Aibileen to not wear her uniform correctly which means that Miss Leefolt was being a mean and she wa…. . Also domestic workers are judge by their ethnicity. The domestic workers tend to come from a different ethnicity than their employers, making them object of discrimination inside their job. Their ethnicity covers the way they talk, their color of their skin, culture, religion etc. The employers use to think that domestic workers are different from them (in a bad way) because of their ethnicity making them feel like their ethnicity is inferior. This happened in the book The Help when Hilly said to her friends, “All these houses they’re building without maid’s bathrooms? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of negro diseases”. (Stokcett, 10). This clearly shows discrimination based on their color of their skin which is their ethnicity. They assume that they carry negro diseases so it will be very dangerous for them to go the same bathroom as their domestic workers because they will catch those diseases. As you can see is a very