Recently I was talking to an aquaintance of mine about how life was different in her homeland in Africa. She was telling me that it was easier there because women had help.
Hoping to clarify I asked, "You mean that you lived in a community of other women who worked together?"
She laughed. "No, I mean HELP... like maids." She explained that everybody, even the poorest families have maids. There were women who would pick up your clothes and wash them for wages, but almost every family had a live-in maid who would do household chores in exchange for being sent to school. She admitted that some families abused their maids, but said that most did not.
It sounded like a fascinating culture to me until I watched and read these from ABC News. Now it sounds different than what I had originally heard.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=5326508&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=5327812&page=1
