Some of Sister Sylvester's previous efforts, "The Maids' the Maids," say, or "Dead Behind These Eyes," fell precipitously short of their ambitions.
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One of the crazier maids had robbed Naseem at gunpoint.
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My maids are well paid for and I love them.
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But before long, they will have to find new maids.
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"I think they hate us," she said of the maids.
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It's also really hard to sew all the maids' costumes.
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Moreover, many immigrants work in social care, as maids or nannies.
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Actresses dressed as Marthas, the Gilead equivalent of maids, greeted partygoers.
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Basically, it takes a picture, uploads it, looks for meter maids.
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Future maids of honor, let's see if you can top it.
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Large cleaning service franchises include Merry Maids, Molly Maid and MaidPro.
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Oh, I did a pinkie circle with my maids of honor.
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Janitors, truck drivers, hotel maids, and more will get better protections.
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Marie had been slapped, punched, kicked, and bitten by former maids.
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Concierge, desk, servers, maids and luggage, I give to them all.
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Since Housewives, she has gone on to produce shows like Devious Maids.
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Hong Kong has opened its borders to foreign nurses, nannies and maids.
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How do they pay maids who typically accept only hard paper cash?
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Strickland walks in, and tells the maids not to worry about leaving.
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There are so many reasons for maids to exist in the shadows.
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In December Mexico's supreme court ruled that maids enjoy full labour rights.
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Foreign families in the city are being allowed to hire foreign maids.
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Not like these dainty maids who're afraid of a pair of breeches.
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But for a growing number of maids, trail-running offers an escape.
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But for a growing number of maids, trail running offers an escape.
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The women have been described as either waitresses or maids in reports.
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It comes fully staffed with a live-in butler, chef, and maids.
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Women who were once called spinsters eventually started being called old maids.
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The mammy stereotype portrays black women as obedient maids to white families.
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Trump greets a group of gathered Azalea Trail Maids in Mobile, Alabama, Dec.
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No way I could have known to send SWAT instead of meter maids.
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My friends all say [even] the Negro maids and servants are getting antagonistic.
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It could create new class systems: those with robot maids, and those without.
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Then they heard about The Maids, the residential cleaning service, and were intrigued.
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Nearly 60 percent work in the Middle East, many of them as maids.
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Franklin Roosevelt's German shepherd, Major, used to chase the White House maids around.
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She told him they were maids who had been swindled by an employer.
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No. When I first started, I think my first 3 roles were maids.
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The causes that lead migrant maids and nannies to join jihad are complex.
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One of the kitchen maids brings in a giant fish in a bucket.
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She has a staff, including two maids who keep a diary on her every move Along with Tschudin, her social media director, Choupette also has two maids and a personal driver, according to a 2012 Harper's Bazaar interview with Lagerfeld.
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He started having affairs with her maids-of-honor, Madge Shelton and Jane Seymour.
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Maids make up more than a third of the 6 million Indonesians working abroad.
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Korniloff's daughters from a previous marriage, Miranda and Renni, served as maids of honor.
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Like, equipped with maids to carry around her unframed Picasso and Degas paintings rich.
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Apparently Trump doesn't let his maids touch his toothbrush for fear of being poisoned.
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One of the saddest maids had been assaulted and strangled by a serial killer.
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As domestic workers, maids are excluded from labour laws in most Middle East states.
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Ms. Neely also probed the nuances of the relationship between maids and their employers.
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The Syphaxes are descendants of Martha Washington's grandson and one of his enslaved maids.
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In 2015, it executed two Indonesian maids in a week despite protests from Jakarta.
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Some have become maids and offer their cleaning services to others for little money.
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According to NWLC, janitors, maids, housekeepers and building cleaners are common occupations for Latinas.
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And on top of that, we want the maids to feel good in them.
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It's about 1960s Mississippi, racism, and how African-American maids were treated by their employers.
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And the #MeToo movement is happening not just with actresses but maids and caregivers, everywhere.
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And perhaps most infamously, Lifetime aired Devious Maids for four seasons before it was canceled.
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The "maids" was referring to the large contingent of domestic helpers in the city-state.
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" He said that the administrators of the app "will not filter maids, banglas or uglies.
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Unskilled immigrants tend to become maids, cooks and farm workers — jobs that require less English.
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After its first year in business, Two Maids & A Mop raked in $110,000 in sales.
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Many of these janitors, maids, and other contractors are people of color earning low-wages.
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And it would save the maids from the inevitable horrors they found beneath those beds.
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And what would Downton Abbey be without those maids tending to every tendril and tribulation?
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Not to mention owls, humanoid robots, or even human women dressed as panty-less maids.
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It is surrounded by a variety of structures, including what was reportedly the maids' quarters.
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The homes had tinted windows, electricity, generators, plasma TVs, washers and dryers, and even maids.
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The children grew up sheltered from the Depression, tended to by maids and a driver.
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In this makeshift morgue, two maids have the task of preparing the bodies for disposal.
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She and her siblings grew up surrounded by maids, butlers, nannies, chauffeurs and other servants.
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And so the work has no value and this directly impacts the wages of maids.
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And that's not including her two maids of honor: her mom, Tina and her sister, Ashlee.
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Their "maids of heaven and guardians of virtue" tagline is an explicit reference to this connection.
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"Gaia is actually very lady-like, very girly," the Devious Maids actress told PEOPLE in 2016.
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The maids told police they were assaulted as they entered the athlete's room to clean it.
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Orr opened up lockers bursting with bags of belongings often collected by maids cleaning the rooms.
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Both feature mysteriously missing maids — the one in the American version disappears during a hurricane, naturally.
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When Mr. Putin runs out of bodyguards, maybe he will start appointing his cooks and maids.
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Besides delivery drivers, truckers, maids, janitors, landscape workers, and more suffer from the independent contract model.
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She designed a single dress for her maids that featured a halter top and empire waist.
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She was the most beloved first lady among the butlers and maids on the residence staff.
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I don't know, I don't know that many meter maids, actually, but they could be nicer.
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Only last month bureaucrats said they preferred not to let Muslim families hire non-Muslim maids.
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They all went to work as maids in the Middle East hoping to earn decent money.
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But stories of African maids committing suicide or dying in the Middle East continue to emerge.
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Many of them work at my properties in Florida as groundskeepers, maids, that kind of stuff.
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My mother recalls my grandmother speaking of several black maids who got their furs this way.
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Maids and housekeepers in the industry earned a median of just $23,310 a year in 2018.
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"These women typically worked as maids, and I wanted to offer them more opportunity," she said.
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Many of the maids I knew or that my husband knew, they didn't speak good English.
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Thousands of families have now locked their maids out, escalating resentments between India's rich and poor.
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In the office, Donna's mother handed Foos some mail and briefed him on the maids' schedules.
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Bonus: the maids are usually young, the skirts are short, and their cleavage is cut low.
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She's also directed, taking the helm in shows like Devious Maids, Jane the Virgin and Black-ish.
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Without asking any questions, the maids clean up the trail of blood the men (literally) leave behind.
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It turns out that being raised by maids, as I was, doesn't make you grateful and neat.
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In the photos, students from the Waco, Texas-based college dressed up as maids and construction workers.
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Most women work as maids, often for more than 22017 hours a day, with few legal rights.
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We have three maids — one cooks, one cleans the house, and one does the dishes and laundry.
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Amazon is soon rolling out integrations with Merry Maids and pet sitters and dog walkers on Rover.
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Even a well-intentioned film can perpetuate tropes of maids and nannies as meek, petty, and unremarkable.
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The Trail Maids are high school seniors who act as welcoming ambassadors for major events in Mobile.
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Two Maids & A Mop is a residential cleaning company in search of a new director of franchises.
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RIGHT: Maria Carter Custis Syphax, the daughter of Martha Washington's grandson and one of his enslaved maids.
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Starr allegedly struck one of the maids in the face before cops arrived and arrested both of them.
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There are maids puttering, ladies planning, and the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) making the dry remarks we've missed.
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So I asked the best person I could find: Joshua, a professional cleaner and founder of Broadway Maids.
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In her video post, the Devious Maids star assured followers she was feeling well and taking necessary precautions.
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After school, they work as maids and in factories, and they study for hours late into the night.
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However, we do not appear to be making much progress on our portrayals of maids in pop culture.
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This includes women, single moms, and people of color — which is often reflected in the casting of maids.
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Young Latin American women are reluctant to work as live-in maids, partly because they have better alternatives.
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The Azalea Trail Maids wore pastel purple, blue, yellow, pink and green dresses, according to the pool report.
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Beware o' being over partic'lar yourself, lest these dainty maids betray you into thinking love's a parlor game.
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The salaries of the maids and the wives would boost the GDP per head in the receiving country.
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Some maids' employers take their passports, fail to pay them agreed wages and even beat or rape them.
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As Holt puts candidates to the test, he's joined by Two Maids & A Mop's first franchisee, Jaime Kulaga.
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Well then, how about the maids, bartenders and food servers at his five-star hotel in Las Vegas?
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For the next two years, he lived in an East London slum with one of Sarah's former maids.
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On the weekends, she'll have to straighten up her prison cot by 10 AM. No maids, of course.
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Brazil's Globo has more details (via Google Translate): According to police, Saada attacked two maids on Tuesday morning.
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Was told to answer yes when they asked us if we were master seamstresses, blacksmiths or lady's maids.
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And there are no maids around to clean up your mess or fix your post-sex hair, either.
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His wife, Fanny, along with faithful maids, butlers, drivers, and messengers, helped arrange it all to his liking.
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"We worship them, because they are such an important part of our lives," she said of the maids.
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Tesfa is one of countless girls working as maids in cities across Ethiopia although official data is lacking.
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With the push of a button, maids and other hotel workers can notify security if they ever feel unsafe.
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Mr. Tiang pares it down to 18 (mostly Jia relatives and maids), played by a valiant cast of nine.
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It's also important for any brides who aren't financially blessed to be realistic as to their maids' potential budgets.
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Last year, Glantz worked with over forty brides and maids of honor but she is vowing to do more.
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In pre-industrial England all single women, no matter how old, were "maids", and all single men were "lads".
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As machines emerged en masse during the industrial revolution, laundry maids, blacksmiths and weavers were forced out of business.
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Last Friday, Moroccan boxer Hassan Saada was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted two maids in the Olympic Village.
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For the documentary "Housemaids," Mr. Mascaro gave seven teenagers cameras to film their live-in maids for a week.
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The chief usher manages all White House residence activities and oversees staffs of butlers, maids, chefs, florists and electricians.
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Maids and cleaners in Las Vegas average $15.26 an hour, nearly $4 more than they make elsewhere in America.
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What's more, when Latinos are represented onscreen, too often they are shown playing gang members, drug dealers, or maids.
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He added that people want maids but don't want to pay proper wages and instead keep them as slaves.
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One pair of students, Elena and Nikoleta, spend the summer working as hotel maids in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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They were perpetually in limbo, waiting for maids to fasten dresses, open doors and maybe even scratch their noses.
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The most striking aspect of The Maids of Elfen Mere is that all three maidens have the same face.
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In exchange for helping the maids and bringing the Gentle Lunatic solace, she was given board and an education.
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These numbers may seem small, but the radicalization of Indonesian maids and nannies working in East Asia is alarming.
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The settlement, named Neom, has wildly ambitious plans for technology like artificial rain, a fake moon, and robotic maids.
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Sears Home Services, which offers maids and handymen, is looking to become the "smart home expert" across the country.
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About 10 million Filipinos — roughly 10 percent of the population — live and work abroad, many of them as maids.
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I didn't have first-world problems in Qatar: I had Victorian first-world problems that involved maids and drivers.
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Making her rounds, the 23-year-old quickly points out groups of women likely heading abroad to work as maids.
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Maids make up more than a third of the six million Indonesians working abroad, attracted by promises of higher salaries.
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But stories abound of maids being sent abroad against their will, enduring horrific abuse and living in slave-like conditions.
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It is the third reported case of aggression against maids in the Village since the Games began on Aug. 5.
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The showrunner's impressive résumé includes credits on hit shows like Girls, How to Get Away With Murder, and Devious Maids.
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Min Sang: Some people use them to accommodate their maids, which is a shame because there's so little air inside.
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In another difference from Disney's domestic parks, even rank-and-file cashiers and hotel maids seem thrilled to be there.
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The family's home, in the Madher neighborhood, had a staff of about fifty, including servants, gardeners, maids, cooks, and drivers.
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This unique compensation plan helped make TWO MAIDS & A MOP™ among the fastest growing cleaning companies in the country.
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If it's 10,000 people, I don't know if I would want to be that person for Two Maids & A Mop.
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His mother, in public, is distant and cold, leaving her son to the passing whims of nurses, maids, and tutors.
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She also guest-starred on "Devious Maids" and "American Dad!" and was a judge on "RuPaul's Drag Race" in 2017.
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"Our constitution gives this right to maids and widows, white and black," one lawmaker wrote in a newspaper in 21801.
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In response, thousands of families have locked their maids out, saying they can no longer trust them in their homes.
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A new translation of "The Maids" should encourage readers to revisit a career that spanned industrialisation, world wars and natural disasters.
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Retirees can splurge on penthouse living, gardeners and maids, club memberships, epicurean meals in fine restaurants – all on a modest budget.
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Many end up as maids, or are forced to work in small industries such as textile workshops or labour on farms.
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Indonesian activists protest against the death penalty, in response to the execution of two Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia in 2015.
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Since the 2002 romantic comedy, there haven't been many other shows or movies that focus primarily on maids or domestic workers.
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And if maids aren't acquiescing to the desires and ambitions of those who do have to interact with them, they're villainized.
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Stone, 59, revealed her mother became a maid at just 9 years old — the third generation of maids in her family.
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She executive produced Lifetime's Devious Maids, which ran from 2013 to 2016, and boasts her very first episodic TV directing credit.
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Femme fatale Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki), while attracted to Solo, vamps it up for everyone else too, including maids and servers.
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With over 50 franchises throughout the United States, TWO MAIDS & A MOP™ is now looking for a director of operations.
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Learn more about TWO MAIDS & A MOP™ on an all new episode of The Job Interview Wednesdays 10P ET/PT
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Blueprints obtained by the Wall Street Journal detail wild plans for artificial rain, a fake moon, robotic maids, and holographic teachers.
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At the other end of the wage spectrum, janitors (usually men) earn 21980 percent more than maids and housecleaners (usually women).
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Only the lady's maids would see and tend to their hair — which was always worn up and pulled back in public.
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Motor Maids across the Continent (2017) is published by the Song Cave and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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" Its opponents focus on the fact that such a system will inevitably be vulnerable to bad actors — hackers, stalkers, "evil maids.
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Kafala, the Middle East's visa sponsorship system, allows employers to exploit loopholes — meaning that many maids cannot leave without their permission.
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Last year our bûche was inspired by the zinc roofs of Paris, with their little chimneys and windows of maids' rooms.
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It has money, sex, drugs; it has Newport, New York and Europe; it has nobility; it has maids, butlers, a gardener.
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I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn't the voices of the maids that were heard.
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At Jimmy Wales' wedding, one of the maids of honor toasted him as the sole internet mogul who wasn't a billionaire.
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However, job opportunities within the personal care and service industry, such as childcare workers and maids, are expected to increase significantly.
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Businesses' spending on machines and other equipment is tepid, but employers keep hiring hotel maids, electricians, daycare providers and other workers.
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In 1950, domestic laborers (maids, nannies, and the like) became eligible for benefits, along with nonprofit workers and the self-employed.
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"Controlling prostitution for gain" invokes ideas of sinister crime lords, but often the charge is used against maids and other staff.
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Job: Project manager in advertisingAge: 30Location: Denver, COAnnual Salary: $51,000Total Number Of Bridesmaids: Nine total, with two maids of honor — including me.
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Those jobs, which include early childhood teachers, maids and housekeepers, and cashiers, pay a median wage of less than $15 an hour.
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Those jobs, which include early childhood teachers, maids and housekeepers, and cashiers, pay a median wage of less than $20153 an hour.
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" When creating a seating plan, she would never say "placement" — "Placement is what maids have when they are engaged in a household!
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Police said the Bulgarian had attacked the maids using a broomstick and with punches and that he had also choked one woman.
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Young maids in a palace dormitory, torn between small acts of kindness and infighting, could be teenage workers at an electronics plant.
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Both sent in subs (their maids) and Leah won, but Rachel gave birth to Benjamin, youngest and favorite son of his father.
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She also revealed that she will be guest starring in another show she produces, the season four premiere of Lifetime's Devious Maids.
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In Shanghai, and perhaps soon in other cities, foreign-passport holders are allowed to import maids from countries such as the Philippines.
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He lays down his beating rod in the sink and then, much to the maids' horror, starts to pee into the urinal.
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Then they come home and work jobs as maids and in factories before they then study for hours late into the night.
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It's pretty pervasive, and it's especially pervasive in occupations where women are without resources — the lowest-paid ones, such as hotel maids.
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Of all the running gags throughout Gilmore Girls's seven season history, Emily's constant firing of her maids is one of the best.
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The maids, like many desperate people today, feel no consolation in their poverty—only a growing sense of injustice at their fate.
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The rules are aimed at workers in the gig economy, though they will also apply to caretakers, maids, carers and many others.
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That's just what Ron Holt, CEO and founder of TWO MAIDS & A MOP™ decided to do with his residential cleaning company.
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This week on The Job Interview, Two Maids & A Mop, a residential cleaning company in Alabama, is seeking a franchise operations director.
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Unlike HelperChoice, a team of staff at FEA help match maids to bosses based on criteria they have entered on their profile.
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Essentially, they are cosplay, fetish-influenced restaurants where the female service staff dress and act like maids/mistresses to their customers/masters.
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The abuse of Asian and African maids in Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman is commonly reported.
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The system can also be used to grant home access to other services, such as Merry Maids, a housecleaning provider, and Rover.
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Millions like Cardenas are part of the informal economy, earning cash in hand as cleaners, maids, street vendors, and on construction sites.
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Only about a dozen radical maids in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are active on social media, for example.
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As a result, union members who work as maids and bellboys at $2100-a-night hotels pay nothing for their health care.
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Ms. Spencer, too, noted that the award didn't mean an automatic promotion to leading roles; she was offered a lot of maids.
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Back at the school, the organisers of the lessons bemoaned the fact that many young maids would miss out on an education.
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To survive, some have begun offloading their girls to work as maids for middle-class Bangladeshis, or in the local garment industry.
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YB allegedly told Thigpen to get the housekeepers out, and that's when Thigpen allegedly attacked the maids, striking one in the face.
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The Beijing municipality has said it will even consider allowing foreign professionals to bring in their own foreign maids, currently illegal in Beijing.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Bulgarian competitor has been charged with assaulting four maids in the Rio Olympic Village, police said on Tuesday.
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They're love-hotel maids, escorts, gamblers, and bums, people who get overlooked in the noisiest corner of a city of tens of millions.
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Taxi drivers, hair stylists, jewelry store owners, bartenders, maids, and tour guides are all now wondering where their next paycheck will come from.
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The lack of speaking roles is disheartening, especially when most of those roles consist of Latinx stereotypes like criminals, maids, or sexualized characters.
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Later Jacob, on the outs with his father-in-law, snuck away in the dead of night with the wives, maids and kids.
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"The maids commit to reporting any broken items and not wasting food, while their employer renounces any physical or psychological violence," Dembélé explained.
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"Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)," from 1928, depicts two Mexican women, maids whom Kahlo had known since childhood, set against dense tropical foliage.
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Having starred on Melrose Place, Devious Maids and now the Dynasty reboot, Grant Show seemingly lives for the drama — at least on screen.
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Afterward, you're called up to the stage to take a cute picture with one of the maids on a Hello Kitty Polaroid camera.
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Many of us thought there'd be flying cars or a lunar colony by now, or at the very least we'd have robot maids.
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"I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn't the voices of the maids that were heard," Davis said.
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"We tried [to conceive naturally] for at least three years [before Sebi] and it was a shock," says Devious Maids star Sanchez, 44.
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Citing documents drawn up by three large consultancy firms, the Journal says the city could feature artificial rain, robotic maids, and holographic teachers.
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There are about 1.3 million Bangladeshi workers in Saudi Arabia, including about 60,000 maids, most of whom began working there before the ban.
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Both Maria and Angelica are here in Hong Kong as "foreign domestic helpers"—a clinical term the city uses for live-in maids.
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When African-Americans in Hollywood were not singing or dancing, they were often cast as maids, butlers, porters or other servile, peripheral figures.
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Peter Ward represented the 35,000 bellmen, doormen, banquet waiters and maids who made up the powerful New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council.
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He recounted how they pledged to earn money to help their mothers, who worked as live-in maids for white families far away.
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Many of them are taxi drivers and hotel maids, he said, and they have tended, over the years, to keep a low profile.
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Authorities are also investigating maids and drivers, suspecting that their wealthy employers used them to hide undeclared funds after demonetization, officials told Reuters.
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Authorities are also investigating maids and drivers, suspecting that their wealthy employers used them to hide undeclared funds after demonetization, officials told Reuters.
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Two maids tended to her, lavishing Choupette with attention, grooming her and documenting all of their interactions in a diary for Mr. Lagerfeld.
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They almost always played maids in parts that tended to confirm racial stereotypes; even racy, pre-Code Hollywood couldn't imagine black women otherwise.
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She was the only child of a small-town vicar, the granddaughter of two ladies' maids and the great-granddaughter of a butler.
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The establishment's rules are listed on the back of it: Pictures of the maids are forbidden, unless you beat them at a game.
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"The Maids" picks up after the war, telling the stories of household servants working for a family similar to that in "The Makioka Sisters".
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The vocal union, the city&aposs largest, is made up of more than 50,000 casino-hotel workers including maids, kitchen workers, and security staff.
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Hong Kong is home to a large number of Indonesian and Filipino Hong Kong migrants, many of whom work as maids or domestic helpers.
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The maids bowing to Gianni Versace in the morning creeped me out a bit, but I was too distracted with the tiling to care.
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Just like the cheap Renaissance mirrors, the democratisation of photography enabled everyone to see themselves anew, from aristocrats and artists to farmers and maids.
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The thing is, you only get caught if the meter maids spot that you've been parked in one place for longer than two hours.
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At the same time, the migrating young women would be hired as service maids in the receiving country, allowing wives to go to work.
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He said the goal was to integrate robots more deeply into the lives of average people, the Jetson's fantasy of robotic butlers and maids.
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Working under Auntie are two Ukrainian maids, Vera and Sonya, and a Pole named Vladimir, who has the letter "P" embroidered on his uniform.
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It was expensive, she knew, but it would save time and money for Naseem because the maids wouldn't have to vacuum under the beds.
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Maids curtsied in starched peaked caps so white they hurt your eyes and you knew the war was coming from nowhere, swift and bloody.
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It's not just about what she's saying, but it's also about the maids coming to help her or about a look or a gesture.
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In Southern cities, black domestic workers, including maids, nurses, cooks and laundresses, performed the most intimate and the most undesirable jobs for white families.
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Lebovitz's first home in Paris was a double-size version of one of those top-floor garrets to which hardworking maids were once relegated.
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But Philippine officials are under pressure to do more to monitor the safety of the workers, who are often employed as maids and laborers.
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The patients may be maids, porters and bartenders, but they will be treated as if they were staying at the Ritz, Dr. Greenspan said.
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But the troupe also tackles modern classics, notably Jean Genet's "The Maids," in 2012, featuring the superb stage actresses Jeanine Serralles and Ana Reeder.
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"Thank you to all the White House ushers, butlers, maids, chefs, florists, gardeners, plumbers, engineers & curators for all you do every day," she tweeted.
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Kuwait later expelled the Philippine ambassador, after embassy staff members attempted what they called rescues of Filipina maids who they said had been abused.
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That is partly because in Indian cities, many maids live in their employers' homes, giving them little opportunity to build networks and compare notes.
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Wall Street barons ran off with maids, star-studded couples scandalously divorced and, not surprisingly, high-priced escorts worked the upscale bars and hotels.
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With or without legal-residency or work permits, they often end up making their livings as maids, care-givers, dishwashers, waiters, street vendors, or prostitutes.
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Despite our love for air-conditioners and our two-maids-per-child compulsions, we know about climate change: We are trying to ban plastic bags.
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In September, he told supporters at a California golf club that "you leave a little tip" for Hispanic maids, drawing criticism from some Latino groups.
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Jenner visited Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show to chat about celebrity neighbor business, from cleaning with your maids to Kendall's stalkers to personal chefs.
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Beyond winning the award, McDaniel was determined to make a name for herself as an actor, often being cast in roles as maids and servicewomen.
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Among residents who employ maids in the area where Bibi worked, "there is resentment and silence," said Kalai Selvi of the National Domestic Workers' Movement.
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Filipinos working abroad as maids, nurses and waiters, among many other jobs, send back about $31bn a year—equivalent to more than 10% of GDP.
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Where people once worried about becoming old maids or dying alone with only occasional anonymous hook-ups, millennials are finding solace in their private space.
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There's certainly drama: I observe one scene of Alicia (The Fosters' Denyse Tontz) going head-to-head with stepmother Gigi (Devious Maids alum Roselyn Sanchez).
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We may not have reached the age of The Jetsons where robot maids like Rosie are commonplace, but we do have something close: robot vacuums.
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It has quietly eased Japan's near-ban on visas for low-skilled workers, with agreements to allow foreign maids to work in special economic zones.
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The maids represent differing responses to oppression: Solange wants to rise up and rebel, whereas Claire takes comfort in the illusion that they have fashioned.
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Davis's most recent nomination was for The Help, a drama about a young white girl coming to realize that her maids are, you know, human.
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The White House is also home to nearly 100 permanent residents including maids, cooks, a plumber, a florist, and a head housekeeper, according to GoBankingRates.
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Genet's "The Maids" is much performed, staged in many settings, but there's a particular urgency to the sisters' yearning for freedom in Mr. Rivera's adaptation.
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Any Day Now, which did garner some critical acclaim, avoids using white savior plots and offensive, stereotypical characters such as black maids or black criminals.
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When teachers first unionized in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, 97 percent were women, and they were paid little more than maids.
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George Herbert Walker Bush, known by his childhood nickname of Poppy, was cared for by maids and chauffeured to kindergarten at Greenwich Country Day School.
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When it came time for speeches, Rich and Gadecki's best men and maids of honor all walked up and took turns passing around the microphone.
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There are many more maids than there are people who find it burdensome to pick up the telephone to ask them to clean your tub.
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In an exclusive sneak peek, the Telenovela star is seen lying on the floor seemingly stabbed to death on the season 4 premiere of Devious Maids.
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He was born in Windsor, Ontario, in 1950, too late to have enjoyed his family's prosperous life in Belgrade, complete with maids, nannies and a yacht.
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The best part, though, is that most of these options are under $200 — and that's news your 'maids will love, no matter what style you choose.
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"The first hour in a client's home is like speed-dating," says Angela Brown, founder of the Savvy Cleaner Training and Certification for House Cleaners & Maids.
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So it may be that the way we see maids in film and television is simply a representation of how we view them in real life.
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She walks an impressive eight kilometers each day between her home and her office, at an organization that lobbies to protect maids and other household workers.
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Choupette is famous for living a lavish lifestyle, with Lagerfeld referring to her as a "full time job" and hiring maids dedicated to caring for her.
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Veteran television actress Brown — who portrays Claudia Blaisdel on Dynasty — has also appeared on General Hospital, Devious Maids, NCIS: New Orleans, The Mentalist, Revenge and Graceland.
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" Then there was the question about how many maids work at the palace, which he answered after a pause: "Probably not as many as you think.
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My knowledge of bridesmaids (and the all-important maids of honor) was limited to what I'd seen in movies like 27 Dresses and The Wedding Planner.
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By forcing itself into modern-day consciousness, "The Maids" reveals how little the social hierarchy has changed in the decades since Genet put pen to paper.
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Last year, Mar-a-Lago was granted permission to hire 70 foreign workers to serve as maids, cooks and servers during the 2017-2018 tourist season.
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India authorized some 60,000 maids to work in the Gulf in just over two years up to December 2016, according to the ministry of external affairs.
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Indonesia imposed a ban on sending new maids there in 2015 but rights groups say domestic helpers continue to go, tempted by the relatively high salaries.
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At one moment the Motor Maids are driving through "these flat, monotonous wheat fields," and then, a moment later, he makes you shift your perceptual gears.
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Reading Motor Maids across the Continent is like sitting in a car that has been commandeered by a driver who likes to exceed the speed limit.
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As a result, largely Hispanic women make up 43% of all maids and house cleaners in the country, according to a 2013 report from The Atlantic.
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Tosi says that Milk Maids regularly eat these quesadillas for staff meal, but the wondrous thing about quesadillas is that they don't demand a given time.
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For at least a few hours, the sweat and camaraderie of the trails blur the lines between employers and maids, and among locals, migrants and expatriates.
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From allegations against studio heads and journalists, to hotel maids recounting abuses on the job, women are exposing the truth and men are losing their jobs.
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Many women from Indonesia work as maids in the Middle East and various Asian countries, often leaving their families behind for the promise of steady income.
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Originally maids' quarters, the second floor was reconfigured into a study and three bedrooms, the largest of which has an en suite bath with a tub.
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Many nurses said that patients think hospitals are hotels and treat nurses like maids who can stop work and grab a pillow at a moment's notice.
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Depending on lifestyle choices—many retirees hire maids and a landscape gardener—a monthly budget for a couple in Coronado would run from $1,750 to $23,975.
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"Roma" shares its name with a neighborhood in Mexico City where families live behind locked gates, and where maids, cooks and drivers busily keep homes running.
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But early on Wednesday, at the Mahagun Moderne in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India's capital, the madams and the maids went to war.
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But groups like Migrant Care and the National Advocacy Network of Domestic Workers - two of the Indonesia's leading organizations fighting for maids' rights - have criticized the ban.
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Orange Is the New Black star Uzo Aduba recently stepped out for the opening night of her new show, The Maids, sporting a matchy-matchy makeup look.
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There were thin, blonde models in Budweiser commercials, the rapper explained, and Black actresses who were only ever cast as maids or servants, with little in between.
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Skeeter decides to write a book from the perspective of the maids in Jackson, Mississippi, shedding light on the racism they face when working for white families.
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But work by black mothers was more common, and more expected, especially in Southern states that relied on black women's labor as maids, nannies, and agricultural workers.
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"I would certainly not be too keen to send kids and young maids or teenaged daughters with male taxi drivers alone," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The name may not ring a bell, but she played the role of Pam in Netflix's Jessica Jones, and has appeared in Chicago Med and Devious Maids.
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"At least he hasn't hit me yet," she sighed, surrounded by a group of fellow maids meeting on the street at the end of their work day.
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On Wednesday night, the actress spoke at the inaugural Women's Choice Awards in Hollywood, where she got candid about growing up in a family of Irish maids.
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But they are a far more significant source of labour for household services, accounting for 22% of workers in private households, and 24% of maids and housekeepers.
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Workers like Ms. Mendoza say they earn almost $15 an hour — slightly higher than statewide averages for maids and housekeepers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Ron Holt, the CEO of Alabama-based residential cleaning company Two Maids & A Mop, asked this question while interviewing candidates for a new franchise operations director role.
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Meals come on white tablecloths, maids do the laundry and a car and driver are always waiting to whisk them away to important meetings or glittering parties.
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When they left their hotel room for the day, did they help the maids by putting the bedsheets back, or did they just leave everywhere a mess?
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And as the population ages and needs more support, an array of robot maids, nurses, mobility aides, and medical assistants may be expected to meet social needs.
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Some 500,000 migrants from Indonesia work in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, most of them, like Ayu, women employed as maids, nannies or caretakers for the elderly.
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After all, women hold about two-thirds of low-wage jobs that pay less than $10.50 an hour, like child care workers, restaurant servers, maids, and cashiers.
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Richard and Emily live closed-off, isolated lives, where they seem to spend most of their time playfully bickering with each other or sniping at their maids.
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Many camps had their own security and strict rules against alcohol and drugs, as well as maids, fitness centers, high-thread-count sheets and 24-hour meal service.
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The Devious Maids and Without a Trace star is set to welcome her second child with husband and fellow actor Eric Winter, the couple announced Sunday on Instagram.
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Some 2.3 million Indonesians are working as maids in wealthier countries in Asia and the Middle East, risking abuse including the non-payment of wages and physical assault.
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Jakarta last year summoned the Saudi Arabian ambassador after two Indonesian maids were executed in the Gulf state within a week, one for killing her allegedly abusive employer.
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Lopez premiered the song during last month's Idol finale, in which the singer and her team of dancers dressed as maids – complete with feather dusters and matching aprons.
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Little data exists on the number of girls working as maids, confusion surrounds the laws about their minimum age and the practice is deeply ingrained in Nigerian culture.
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Moroccan light-heavyweight Hassan Saada was meanwhile arrested on Friday on charges he sexually assaulted two maids who worked in the Olympic Village, Rio de Janeiro police said.
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In pre-industrial western Europe, men and women did not marry while they were maids or apprentices, but only when they could set up households of their own.
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There's talk of trimming the bridesmaid list down to four, but in the end, according to history, she had 12 maids who weren't all from perfectly pious families.
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Meter Maid Monitor uses high tech cloud magic to automate the game of dodging meter maids when you're parked in the 2-hour resident bays around the city.
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On Wednesday, a Brazilian judge also released a Moroccan boxer accused of sexually assaulting two maids, but said he cannot approach the Village or leave Rio without authorization.
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"Debths" opens with an epigraph from Bing Crosby and the Music Maids' 1939 version of "Little Sir Echo," which suggests this book's deep structures of call and response.
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These accounts from foreign domestic workers in Singapore feature in a new report that suggests some 23% of maids in the city state are exploited by their employers.
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Two Maids & A Mop already cleans over 100,000 homes a year and has its sights set on growing to an additional 300 markets in the next five years.
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That reckless brio flourishes in the absence of the maids' mistress, whose vainglorious appearance midway through locks Claire and Solange once more into the silence that accompanies servitude.
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Vallejo is the one city in the Bay Area where you can park anywhere and not worry about getting a ticket, because there are no meter maids either.
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Brian Tanen, who wrote for "Devious Maids" and "Desperate Housewives," contemporized the Spanish series "Gran Hotel" on which the show is based — and with which Longoria was obsessed.
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Just last year, Salma Hayek discussed the challenges she faced as an actress, being told her Mexican accent "might remind people of their maids" according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Complaints of mistreatment of Indonesians in the Middle East and the ensuing diplomatic rows prompted Jakarta announced in May 2015 to permanently ban maids from moving to the region.
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In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro was swept into power by an upper-middle class angry with the welfare state that empowered their black maids to talk back to them.
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And despite how far-reaching and bureaucratic issues of immigration, employment, and education, portrayals of maids — with the exception of The Help — are always about individualistic optimism and achievement.
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Now famous for her roles on Devious Maids and Entourage, Ramirez always knew she wanted to be an actress, but her early life would make future stardom seem unlikely.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the Russian aristocracy scattered across Europe—dukes that had once commanded regiments were taxi drivers, countesses that had once presided over palaces became lady's maids.
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To command more than a small, immediate audience, political fear must mobilize generals and foot soldiers, and a supporting army of secretaries, cooks, and maids to tend to them.
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Mr. Andrews, whose wild and divisive production of Jean Genet's "The Maids" was in New York two summers ago, has dared to reset Williams's masterpiece in the 21st century.
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"In the maids' quarters, there was a marble wash table, and I remember summer afternoon light, and the china jumping up and down in this marble thing," she said.
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It felt as though a moment of reckoning had finally come, with pieces on how casino servers and hotel maids, retail workers, and even Ford employees faced sexual harassment.
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Total employed in the US: 2,790What they do, according to O*NET: Maids and housekeeping cleaners keep neat and orderly rooms, whether they're cleaning bedrooms, offices, bathrooms, or hallways.
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Presented with One-Eighth Theater, it cranks the drama up to Technicolor with the first pair of maids, then dials it way down when the second pair takes over.
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Six out of ten of the new arrivals in the Bangladesh camps are children, providing a fertile hunting ground for traffickers looking for young girls to recruit as maids.
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The website, set up in 2012, has found jobs for about 8,000 maids, Golovanow said, adding that its popularity was due in part to heightened awareness about their mistreatment.
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Per our sources, Ramsay's team weren't the only ones to get the temporary boot ... we're told a lot of the hotel maids were given the same talk as well.
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Among the maids who have led France against the English in the eight Broadway productions since 1923 are Katharine Cornell, Uta Hagen, Siobhán McKenna, Diana Sands and Lynn Redgrave.
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It doesn't take much imagination to see how similar algorithms, or operating instructions, could enable robots to do many of the tasks required of waiters, maids and hospital workers.
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Black women who have worked their whole lives as maids might care more about the minimum wage or police brutality than about seeing a woman in the White House.
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It's set in early-60s Mississippi, and the story is told through the lens of a white journalist (Emma Stone) attempting to write about the experiences of the maids.
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The maids told police he "initially asked to take a photograph with them and that he had then tried to kiss them, using force," the New York Times reported.
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The cat has become a famous face in the fashion world, garnering her own social media following, participating in some campaigns and even has her own set of personal maids.
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Since introducing a new biometric system in 2013, the consulate has discovered 30 forged passports among the passports belonging to more than 150,000 Indonesian maids in Hong Kong, Tharyat said.
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Those who think the glamour days of cruise ships — when women dressed in elegant ball gowns for dinner and rooms boasted their own maids and butlers — are over, think again.
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Total employed in the US: 4,360What they do, according to O*NET: First-line supervisors of personal service workers coordinate personal service workers like make-up artists, caddies, or maids.
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The 43-year-old is the founder and CEO of Two Maids & A Mop, a Birmingham, Alabama-based home-cleaning service that operates in 55 locations and employs 500 workers.
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The servants are plotting to murder the mistress again, but in José Rivera's new adaptation of Jean Genet's "The Maids," they won't be bringing her some delicate cup of tea.
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Indonesia and Cambodia, key sources of migrant workers to Malaysia, have in the past temporarily banned their citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids after cases of abuse.
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The maids are weeping: They see fortunes they can't even make in their whole lifetime being destroyed right in front of them — and they have to literally sweep it up.
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He singles out the work of William Holman Hunt and, especially, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose The Maids of Elfen Mere he names the most beautiful illustration he has ever seen.
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The royal visit's real conflict is that the King and Queen travel with their own cook, maids, and footmen, which quickly leaves the zealous Downton staff feeling redundant and rejected.
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I'm faced with some seriously cool technology that gets me excited in a flying car, robot maids, vaporwave kind of way: A wireless mouse that never needs to be plugged in.
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CNN reported that Mar-a-Lago positions paid roughly $10 an hour for maids and housekeepers, going up to $13 an hour for cooks and about $11 for waiters and waitresses.
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Lyanna is well taken care of in the tower with two maids assisting her, but, everything is covered in blood, including the sheets, the new mom herself, and, now, Ned's hand.
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Padgett wears his knowledge lightly so that the real delight of Motor Maids across the Continent comes from reading it, and not from knowing literary history or catching all the allusions.
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According to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, over 2250,2000 women from the north - many from female headed homes - sought jobs as maids in Gulf nations in 2300 and 2000.
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"(The classes give them) hope and a vision," Fikirte added, recounting success stories of former child maids she had worked with who later went on to become nurses, doctors and engineers.
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Their friendship has grown so close that Williams will be one of Turner's maids of honors at her actual wedding to Joe Jonas, but their connection is sometimes strong to a fault.
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In 2011, Emma Stone and Viola Davis starred in "The Help" which chronicled Skeeter Phelan — played by Stone — as she attempts to write a book about African-American maids in the '60s.
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"I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn't the voices of the maids that were heard," the actor said in an interview with the New York Times.
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The median wage for maids was $9.81 an hour in 2015, while restaurant cooks earned $13.08 an hour and waiters and waitresses $9.41 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Both women said they were unaware of the government's ban on sending maids to the Middle East and that their agents had not warned them of the consequences of breaking the laws.
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Not only do the pair have matching tattoos commemorating the date they were both cast on the show, but Williams was one of Turner's two maids of honor for the big day.
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Maids, nannies and other domestic workers (mostly women), who are subject to some of the worst abuses reported by groups like Human Rights Watch, have largely been excluded from the new freedoms.
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It's an eighties reboot of the stateroom sequence from " A Night at the Opera " (1935), when Margaret Dumont opens the door and a torrent of waiters, maids, and Marx Brothers falls out.
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The documentary includes clips of Hollywood movies in which actors like John Wayne and Doris Day appear in leading roles as the hero, while black actors often played slaves, maids or sidekicks.
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We knew the ones our family members worked for as maids and handymen and how they sometimes sent home bags of not so gently-used clothing that were thankfully accepted then redonated.
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"Several maids were sitting in our room, it was obvious that they were not preparing to clean, and I told them to leave," Bozhilov told Bulgarian Nova TV shortly after arriving back.
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In advance of the episode, we interviewed Ron Holt about appearing on The Job Interview and found out what makes the TWO MAIDS & A MOP™ 'pay for performance' plan so unique.
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HelperChoice is one of several online services cutting out the middleman - recruiters who charge would-be maids exorbitant fees – and helping them to avoid getting trapped in debt bondage to exploitative employers.
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Trump touched down in Mobile Saturday ... and waiting for him were some Alabamians who serve as Azalea Trail Maids, a group of high schoolers chosen to serve as ambassadors for the city.
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The metal contraption became a sign that all of the characters, those upstairs and downstairs, will adapt to the changing world just fine — even if lady's maids become extinct in the process.
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But rather than spending the summer like exchange students, sightseeing and making American friends, some of these students come to know America through low-wage jobs, as maids, servers, and kitchen staff.
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They can be relatively useless — mere decorative headwear — or relatively functional, as they were for a variety of laborers: cowboys, mine workers, maids, women with rivet guns in World War II factories.
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At the Beresford co-op, at 211 Central Park West between 81st and 82nd Streets, Mr. Ackman sold a duplex (with two maids' rooms) to his ex, Ms. Ackman, for $15 million.
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Cellphones, in heavy use here, have a lot to answer for, too; Equity should investigate the way they have usurped the jobs of exposition-spouting maids and butlers in plays like this.
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Women employed as maids signed up to learn how to prepare food in the upper-middle class homes where they worked, along with a few food enthusiasts and stay-at-home mothers.
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Four new mega-casinos opened in quick succession on the Las Vegas Strip, bringing in tens of thousands of new residents to work as card dealers, cocktail servers, security guards and maids.
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She serves meals, cleans away dog droppings and carries laundry up to the roof, where she does the wash in view of other maids on other roofs with their own heavy loads.
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During the class, the otherwise glum Tesfa burst into life and moved her body energetically as the maids enjoyed a recital of "heads, shoulders, knees and toes" with one of the teachers.
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Clinton made two unannounced stops at casino cafeterias while campaigning here over the weekend, where she was cheered by people who make up the union — maids, chefs, kitchen workers, security agents and housekeepers.
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Two novels, "The Makioka Sisters" (1943) and "The Maids" (1962), its apparent counterpart, are particularly insightful; they offer a portrait of sweeping change as experienced by the wealthy and those who served them.
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"Shoppers have decided to call all their relatives, their spouses, their mothers, their daughters, their sons and the house-helps (maids) so they can get as many packets as possible," he told Reuters.
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A Migrant Care survey found 1,020 women interviewed at the airport between March 2015 and May this year were heading abroad to work as maids, with the majority going to the Middle East.
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Machines are created to improve the lives of human beings, and one of the attractions of advanced AI is the prospect of robot maids, butlers and chauffeurs (also known as self-driving cars).
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That is leading more families to send their daughters to earn money in cities during the lean season, often as maids, while sons leave for seasonal jobs as street vendors or gold miners.
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"Our precious local law enforcement resources will be squandered if police are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, labors, mothers and fathers," said de León in a statement.
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If the croissant is doomed to linearity, Poirot is resigned to having the airy round vowels in his name mercilessly flattened by parlour-maids, deliverymen, and policemen (Moosier Parrot, Monsoor Porrit, Mr Poyrott).
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DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar's ruler has introduced a law giving broad protection to tens of thousands of foreigners working as maids, cooks, cleaners and nannies, addressing some concerns long highlighted by human rights groups.
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Since 2015, Indonesia has banned women from going to 21 Middle Eastern countries following a series of abuse cases, but high demand for maids has encouraged traffickers to find ways around the curbs.
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Once Two Maids & A Mop grew to 12 locations and about $4 million in sales, Holt went into franchising in order to foster the company's growth without getting bogged down in excessive expenses.
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The Trump Organization has won the permission to hire 2202 foreign workers to serve as maids, cooks and servers for the 2628-28500 tourist season, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department.
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Foreign maids first arrived in the city in the 1970s, when there was a shortage of local full-time housekeepers as the economy began to take off in line with China's opening up.
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The authorities have denied foreign maids the right to apply for permanent residency and have mandated that they must live in their employers' homes — an arrangement critics argue increases the risk of abuse.
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They train in their limited time off — at the crack of dawn or late at night — and race against locals and expatriates, turning the sport into an unlikely equalizer between employers and maids.
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But when writing my book "The Residence," about the approximately 193 men and women who work as chefs, maids, ushers and florists on the White House residence staff, I heard many strange stories.
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Most of the girls arriving at the center have been rescued in police raids, found by charities or escaped from cybersex dens, brothels or homes where they were forced to work as maids.
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Muslim scholars received scholarships to study in Saudi Arabia, while impoverished farmers escaped clashes by becoming drivers or maids in the Middle East - often returning home with stricter Islamic practices, the sources said.
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A middle-aged man said to be part of China's nouveau riche circle has made local headlines after he was photographed shopping in Guangzhou while escorted by eight robots dressed like maids on Thursday.
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Eta - who has two other maids employed in similar conditions - allows the filmmaker into her home in exchange for payment and in the belief that she has nothing to hide or be ashamed of.
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The minute-long trailer, which is made up of footage of Highclere Castle in full glory at golden hour, teases maids uncovering old furniture and dusting out curtains in preparation for the grand event.
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He said many of the girls are tricked into believing that they will be going to work as house maids and nurses, only to be forced into sex work, while others are going willingly.
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Others are deported from Oman - often en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they take up low-skilled employment as maids, construction workers or drivers, and are often subjected to labor abuses.
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According to the Amazon Key announcement, the company is rolling out over 1,200 services "in the coming months," including a cleaning service from Merry Maids and a pet-sitting and dog walking from Rover.com.
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So eager is the government to prevent maids from putting down roots or burdening public services that they are given regular health checks and, if found to be pregnant, sent home to give birth.
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There are cooks who were once famous for elaborate buffets but now go hungry at night, and maids who spend their days tidying closets but live in squalid rooms that cost $1.50 per night.
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The plot devices of "Belgravia" will be familiar to anyone who has a passing acquaintance with Victorian fiction: There are missing papers, duplicitous ladies' maids, gambling debts, dubious marriage lines and long-lost heirs.
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There has been some progress — Jordan and Kuwait have adopted new laws covering domestic workers' rights, and Kenya slapped a temporary ban on women working in the Middle East as maids until conditions improved.
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Another running sketch, which borrows from and then explodes Jean Genet's "The Maids," finds a white woman, Miss (played by a male actor, Ugo Chukwu, in lace gloves and pearls), dealing with her servants.
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All the paintings in this Guggenheim show were displayed in Péladan's annual, highly publicized exhibition: plaintive Orpheuses; pale femmes fatales; virginal maids in the wilderness, their pallid skin rendered in soft, vaporous brush strokes.
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It was not looking to win elections, but to compel the Democratic Party to do the right thing for the maids, sharecroppers and poor people of Mississippi and to open its doors to them.
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Activists said the findings highlight the poor treatment of maids in Asia and the Middle East, where nearly half of the world's 52 million domestic workers are employed, according to the International Labor Organization.
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Two immigrants who worked as housekeepers at Trump Organization properties while undocumented told The Washington Post a number of odd details about what it was like working as President Donald Trump&aposs personal maids.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muthukani Murugesan faked illness to take a day off work on Wednesday and joined hundreds of fellow maids protesting in southern India for a living wage and better benefits.
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Girls typically work as maids and nannies for Bangladeshi families, either in the nearby resort town of Cox's Bazar or in Chittagong, Bangladesh's second-largest city, about 150 km (100 miles) from the camps.
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Sure, when it comes to the big day itself, there's some clarity: the bride wears white; her maids wear what she tells them to wear, and all of the guests turn out in their finest.
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After all these years and maids, Lorelai still doesn't want to deal with Emily alone, who is too happy to see Rory to nitpick Lorelai or her maid Berta, whose family is living with her.
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"I couldn't understand how she could be so calm, so serene, completely unfazed by the whole thing at the surface," Lady Jane Rayne Lacey, one of the Queen's coronation maids of honor, recalls to PEOPLE.
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Also known for her role as Lisa Niles on General Hospital and Taylor Stappord on Devious Maids, Brown shared a pair of gorgeous maternity snaps taken by Keen, plus two photos from their wedding day.
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And one thing to ask about those people, particularly the old, white men of the Academy is what kind of nonwhite people they nominate: how many presidents, doctors and citizens versus butlers, maids, and slaves?
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New ideas like human ATMs are definitely interesting and work in places like Hong Kong where maids can visit a mall to send money home and where many small bitcoin remittance plays like are thriving.
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What kind of a man spends a lifetime packing every walk-in closet in every gaudy, gold-leaf penthouse he owns with skeletons only to figure no one but the maids will ever see them?
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The elite rarely mix with ordinary folk, apart from maids, chauffeurs and deferential farm hands who have worked for generations on the vast haciendas of the landowners (such as the clan the Aquinos married into).
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge released on Wednesday a Moroccan boxer accused of sexually assaulting two maids in the Olympic Village but said he cannot approach the Village or leave Rio without authorization.
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Affluent financial hub Hong Kong is one of the biggest destinations for maids in Asia, with some 22012,20163 women from the Philippines and Indonesia heading in large numbers to work there, according to government data.
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The robbers locked 11 people - including family members, maids and drivers - in the two meter by one meter (6.5 ft by 3.3 ft) bathroom and they were not found until early on Tuesday, Yuwono said.
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Wealthier retirees can trade in their aging houses in the suburbs for a swanky new apartment in downtown Cuenca (for about $75,000) and keep the balance to pay for luxuries like private maids and cooks.
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At the time, the other big Oscar contender was The Help, a feel-good movie about black maids in the South that was designed just as much for TNT reruns as it was award season.
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When Southern-led congressional committees drafted the law that created the Social Security program in 1935, they excluded maids and farmworkers, the two dominant job categories for Southern blacks and Southwestern Latinos, from the program.
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While others scraped by in a difficult era, her parents had plum jobs and the family had a large apartment, a grand piano, maids, paintings, all the records and theater tickets and other privileges imaginable.
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Based on his own childhood, the film focuses on the women in Cuaron's life then: his comfortably middle-class mother and the family's two maids, in a country confronted by vast inequalities and violent unrest.
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By comparison, in Thailand, the average salary for foreign maids from neighboring Myanmar is between $123 and $143, according to a survey by the MAP Foundation, a migrant rights group based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Run by a local charity, the two-hour lessons are attended by about 130 pupils, most of them young maids, who have permission from their employers to go to school once their chores are done.
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When they arrive in the country, they can be subject to the whims and caprices of unscrupulous employers, who have been known to withhold their passports, trapping maids in abusive households with no means of escape.
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Ningsih first arrived in Hong Kong in 22014 to be a domestic helper, working for subsistence wages as maids and child minders for Hong Kong's families like tens of thousands of other Indonesian and Filipina women.
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High fees also reflect anti-competitive behaviour and a growing thicket of Western money-laundering rules which are meant to police al-Qaeda barons, but which have ended up being a nightmare for expatriate Filipina maids.
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Having inspired a number of Lagerfeld's products, Choupette has become a famous face in the fashion world, garnering her own social media following, participating in some campaigns and even has her own set of personal maids.
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Epstein built a stone mansion with cream-colored walls and a bright turquoise roof surrounded by several other structures including the maids' quarters and a massive, square-shaped white building on one end of the island.
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ServiceMaster, a Fortune 1000 company that also owns Terminix, Merry Maids and American Home Shield, was trading at $2503 on September 18, up from $40.41 a month ago and $37.68 at the start of the year.
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There have been numerous previous reports of employers not paying maids, failing to provide them with proper food and shelter, forcing them to work long hours and even locking them up when they go on holiday.
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Countless women from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia migrate to Gulf countries every year to work as maids for wealthy families, and within countries including Nepal and India for jobs in agriculture, construction and tailoring.
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When they are not on the trails, Ms. Pagarigan and Ms. Alberto are among Hong Kong's 380,000 foreign maids, who make up 5 percent of the population but play an outsize role in the city's economy.
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But the fact is, there's very little within the playacting and gamesmanship that hasn't been voiced more expressively by, among many others, Jean Genet, whose play "The Maids" was a recent stage vehicle for Ms. Blanchett.
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The 1912 telegram was delivered on a bicycle, to a house staffed with dozens of maids, footmen, under-thingies of the page of whatevers, ruled with an iron first by the indomitable butler, Carson (Jim Carter).
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Five years later, we&aposve serviced close to 200 customers, offer custom packages for maids of honor, and have had over 40,000 people apply to work for us (we&aposve hired and fired over the years).
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Housework had been done by maids in their mother's Hiroshima home (when Mr. Sasaki died at age 84 in 1974, Ms. Sasaki still didn't know how to do laundry), but a friend taught her to cook.
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Video conferencing is enabling trafficking victims to give evidence remotely in cross-border cases in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, while employment websites in southeast Asia are helping maids seeking work abroad avoid enslavement by abusive bosses.
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LAS VEGAS MAIDS WANT PANIC BUTTONS INSTALLED IN HOTEL ROOMS A survey of 500 workers conducted by Unite Here Local 1 found 58 percent reported they&aposve experienced at least one incident of sexual harassment by guests.
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"But do you know who was not cool about it, her mum the next day at the wedding when she walked down the aisle as one of the maids of honor in a backless dress," she said.
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Judy Reyes has played remarkable roles on TV ranging from Scrubs to Devious Maids to Jane the Virgin, but her performance as Quiet Ann is sublime, whether she's raging out on someone or crying aloud over heartbreak.
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What's happening: In a letter to Trump on Wednesday, the former Trump Organization employees — including groundskeepers, maids and kitchen staff — asked the president to "do the right thing" and not deport them or their friends and families.
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Not only do the pair have matching tattoos commemorating the date they were both cast on the show, but Williams is even set to be one of two of Turner's maids of honor for the big day.
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" A commercial kitchen for catering might make a surprising addition to most residential homes, but it's business as usual for the Siegels and their staff, which David hopes will expand to include "real French maids from France.
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"From here, they would have been taken to Myanmar and then probably put on a boat to Malaysia or Taiwan to work as maids or laborers or maybe much worse," the officer told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which for the first time created a floor under wages and a roof over hours, ensuring that people weren't worked to death for a pittance, again excluded farmworkers and maids.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's decision to scrap a financial guarantee scheme for migrant domestic workers in Oman will make it harder for maids who are abused or unpaid to get home, campaigners said on Tuesday.
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Maids and nannies, for instance, got lawmakers to introduce a bill this summer called the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act that would grant basic protections like overtime pay and a minimum wage to such workers nationally.
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How come the climax depicts a shape-shifting Duplo queen being married off to Batman, while a talking ice-cream cone introduces the maids of honor as Marie Curie, Chocolate Bar, Tin Man, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ?
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Motor Maids across the Continent is a page-turner which makes you not want to turn the page because you want to stop and marvel over all the different things that Padgett does in his crystalline prose.
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The law passed Tuesday also states that people working as maids, nannies, cooks, and other domestic staff are entitled to breaks for meals and worship, three weeks of annual leave, and protection from psychological and physical harm.
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She contributed set and costume work to many productions, including George Balanchine's ballet Le Palais de cristal, Jean Anouilh's ballet Les Demoiselles de la nuit, Jean Genet's play The Maids, and Federico Fellini's film 8 1/2.
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If you're a service-based company — hiring, for example, movers or painters — you always need to be on the lookout for the next crew members, says Anthony Hartzog, 27, co-owner of Maids 2000 Match in Dallas.
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Bahrain's Labour Market Regulatory Authority said in a blog published earlier this month that the two countries are studying a proposal to cancel the scheme, which gives financial aid to migrant maids, but did not give further details.
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Meanwhile, Leida is horrified, out loud, to find that Eric lives in a very small apartment with his messy adult daughter, and that they have no maids and no treasure trove of disposable income for their impending wedding.
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Despite the highly propagated image of shiny brown bodies playing soccer and dancing samba in the sun, most black Brazilians are still employed as maids and doormen, with little hope for progress unless you marry up (read: white).
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India attempted to increase worker protection by setting up E-migrate in 2015, requiring employers in almost 20 countries, mostly in the Middle East, to get online clearance from the government to hire blue-collar workers and maids.
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To satisfy more elite appetites, there have been things like a many-hours production from Ariane Mnouchkine's Le Théâtre du Soleil and Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert in a barely coherent version of Genet's "The Maids" in 2014.
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Like tens of thousands of maids in Singapore, Apriyani rises at dawn to clean, cook and look after children but this largely invisible domestic workforce and other migrant workers in the city-state often live in the shadows.
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Like Philip Levine, who wrote about working-class life in Detroit, Trethewey observes the lives of people who toil with their hands: seamstresses, maids, beauticians, and the dock and factory workers in and around her hometown of Gulfport.
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When he gets back to it, he might spend less time on the workers putting together air-conditioning units in Indiana and more — a lot more — on the maids and janitors who clean Trump golf resorts and hotels.
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It's not just his boss's head-spinning lies that render him dumbfounded, but also the fact (unknown to him) that Clarice's and Lucrece's maids are twins, both played by Ms. Hutchinson in a miniature comic tour de force.
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Though the newlyweds set up house in Locust Valley, on Long Island's North Shore — where they lived with an English butler and three maids, according to the 1940 census — after seven years of marriage they divorced and Mrs.
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While it was never a secret that Williams would be attending as one of Turner's maids of honor, it did come as a shock when the 22-year-old arrived to the pre-wedding events with bright pink hair.
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The artistic director of Chanel kept up to date on what his kitty was up to while he was away thanks to a diary he had Choupette's maids keep, where they wrote down the cat's day-to-day activities.
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Mr. Trump was describing a world of lockups and surveillance and fugitive-hunting squads, a vast system of indiscriminate catch-and-punish that works as hard to catch hotel maids and landscapers as it does gang members and terrorists.
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Some of those who signed the letter were maids at the Trump golf course in Bedminster, N.J.; others reportedly worked personally for the president's sons at their homes and at a New York hunting lodge, The Washington Post reported.
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"You have shown me that even life's hardest, most confusing times can result in the most beautiful clarity," Ms. Skolkin said as two maids of honor, a best man, 10 bridesmaids, 11 groomsmen and five ushers stood by them.
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In Latin American countries, popular telenovelas focus on white-skinned Latinos and Latinas, correlating lighter skin with higher social class and casting darker-skinned actors to portray the roles of lower-class characters, including maids, gardeners and even criminals.
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While contemporary media overwhelmingly depicted African-Americans as maids and laborers, Patty-Jo and Ginger's vast wardrobes, Heywood-Wakefield-furnished home, and visits to orchestras and art galleries indicated an upscale lifestyle that in itself was a political statement.
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MUSCAT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India and Bahrain are considering scrapping a financial guarantee scheme used to protect migrant maids who are not paid by their employers, in a move activists fear could expose thousands of Indian women in the Arab nation.
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Johnson was joined by her bridesmaids: bridesman and former DWTS partner Adam Rippon, DWTS' Lindsay Arnold, friend Lani, So You Think You Can Dance winner Gabby Diaz and co-maids of honor, her sisters Stacy Johnson Bills and Jill Zenger.
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He tells PEOPLE that giving back has "always been a big part of [his] life" and that of his Devious Maids star wife — a priority that has only become more poignant since their daughter Sebella "Sebi" Rose, now 5, was born.
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Johnson was joined by her bridesmaids: bridesman and former DWTS partner Adam Rippon, DWTS' Lindsay Arnold, friend Lani, So You Think You Can Dance winner Gabby Diaz and co-maids of honor, her sisters Stacy Johnson Bills and Jill Zenger.
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According to the National Women's Law Center, nearly two-thirds of the 20 million low-wage workers in this country are women, working as home health aides, child care workers, fast-food workers, restaurant servers, maids, cashiers, and the like.
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Several high-profile cases of abuse have been reported in recent years, with employers not paying maids, failing to provide with proper food and shelter, forcing them to work long hours and even locking them up when they go on holiday.
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Determined to create opportunities for Black people who she saw working as maids, laundresses, cooks, and sharecroppers, Walker began recruiting Black men and women across America, the Caribbean, and Central America to join her growing beauty empire as sales agents.
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The report is based on the experiences of more than 140 pregnant women who are or have been victims of trafficking in London - 88 percent were forced into prostitution and one in ten were exploited as maids in people's homes.
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"I am so thrilled that [Eva] has someone who is not intimidated by her and who is not afraid by her power, her beauty, her friendship and her drive," Longoria's Devious Maids costar and pal Ana Ortiz told PEOPLE last September.
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Two weeks after Longoria and José Antonio Bastón tied the knot during a sunset ceremony in Mexico, the actress stepped out at the Devious Maids premiere in Los Angeles, wearing just her wedding bands, leaving her gorgeous engagement ring at home.
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Spaniards (or rather, their maids) can scour a home clean like no one else, but bleach is the product of choice, and in recent years, the public has focused its measured fears on high unemployment rates, home evictions or government corruption.
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Both Hilda, a 2014 dramedy about a young, mestiza nanny who is held captive by her white employer, and Muchachas, Juliana Fanjul's 2017 documentary on maids in Mexico City, have zeroed in on the divide between household worker and employer.
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In Hong Kong, laws stipulate recruiters cannot charge more than 313 percent of a helper's first month salary but a study by campaign group Rights Exposure showed in reality maids are often overcharged, sometimes 25 times the legally permitted amount.
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Ms. Pagarigan is part of a growing community of maids in Hong Kong who have taken up trail running for the challenge of the sport and the opportunity to be treated as equals in a society that often discriminates against them.
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Last year alone, foreign maids added $183 billion to the city's gross domestic product, according to a recent report by Enrich, a nonprofit that works on the welfare of migrant workers in Hong Kong, and by Experian, a credit reporting bureau.
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Mr. Cifuentes first grew close to Mr. Guzmán in late 2007 when he went to live with the drug lord (and his entourage of secretaries, maids and bodyguards) in a series of secret hide-outs in the Sierra Madre mountains.
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Mr. Paddock checked in on Thursday and kept the "Do Not Disturb" sign on his door for the next three days, so no maids entered the rooms, according to a hotel worker, who also was not authorized to discuss the matter.
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Also: "With all the focus on abuse in high profile industries, sexual predation among the most exposed and powerless workers, like hotel maids, gets overlooked," writes Lydia Polgreen, the editor of HuffPost, which has a new exposé on this topic.
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Tens of thousands of Ethiopians are estimated to migrate illegally every year via unscrupulous job agencies in search of better-paid work, mainly to Gulf nations where many end up exploited or enslaved in homes as maids or on building sites.
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As migrants from a Muslim-majority country working in non-Muslim territories, Indonesian maids and nannies in Hong Kong or Singapore radicalize for different reasons than either Indonesian helpers in the Middle East or converts to jihad in the West.
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NOIDA, India — The madams in the luxury gated community went to yoga classes and toddler playgroups; the maids soundlessly whisked away dirty dishes and soiled laundry before retreating, at night, to a nearby shantytown of tin sheds and plastic tents.
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Mr. Lagerfeld lived alone in a Left Bank apartment crowded with books and clothes, sharing it only with a Birman cat called Choupette, who became as famous as her master, with her own maids, pillow, diamond necklaces and Instagram account.
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"Meanwhile Spencer's scrappy Minny Jackson, Aibileen's best friend and the best cook in the county, provides not only comic relief but a feistiness that shows that some maids found the gumption and means to get back at overbearing employers," the publication wrote.
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"The house help industry can be a positive thing because you get to help other people who are less privileged, but it should be regulated," said Chinelo Ezenwa, founder of the project, adding that there should be laws governing treatment of maids.
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Edge profiles the black cooks and maids who helped end Jim Crow, orders at the drive-thrus that dot America's highways, follows the Delta mafia that controlled the restaurant pages of The New York Times, and lands in the Nuevo Sud of today.
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Isabelle Huppert, the French actress who starred alongside Cate Blanchett in Lincoln Center Festival's production of Genet's "The Maids" in 2014, will return to the New York stage in the title role of "Phaedra(s)" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in September.
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The balance of power was far over on one side however and was equivalent to the servant/master relationship at English Manor Houses in which the "young Master" felt it to be his right to sample all the maids in the household.
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But many of the members who are mobilizing on its behalf are Latino hotel maids like Celia Vargas, a Salvadoran maid at a Trump hotel profiled in a must-read article by the New York Times' Dan Barry: It has not been easy.
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In the world of Carrington's fiction, hyenas can attend balls; maids and queens alike may be offed at a moment's notice; and a gentleman asking to cured of an annoying fly may end up with navy blue skin, red zippers over his orifices.
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But while the Shangri La is set on a residential stretch of road, the St. Regis sits on a busy commercial boulevard next to a run-down strip mall with two money changers, a pet store and "Maids R Us," a hiring agency.
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They liked her, too, in the 2011 film "Bridesmaids," when she turned the part of the ostensible straight-woman — the bridal tether against which the titular maids jostle like Mylar balloons in the wind — into a character at once heartfelt and grotesque.
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India's estimated 420 million unorganized workers - including daily-wage labourers, rag-pickers, rickshaw drivers and maids - have few social security nets, and were stung by Modi's controversial decision in 2016 to withdraw overnight most of the country's high-value banknotes from circulation.
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The plantation is seen as a rare success story in a country where about 18 million people are estimated by the government to be trapped in bonded labor, working without pay across fields, brick kilns, factories, brothels or as maids to repay debts.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half a million people work as maids and housekeepers (called "room attendants") in the American hotel industry, and the average hourly wage is $173, or about $25,000 a year for a full-time position.
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Workers in the informal sector, which includes rickshaw pullers, brick layers, tea sellers, maids, drivers, watchmen and millions of others, also are to be given financial bonuses under the new budget, but it seemed Mr. Modi was especially interested in pleasing farmers.
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Tens of thousands of young women were inspired by their emerging new opportunities but also intimidated by the hostility they faced and by the dire warnings that they would end up the lonely, shriveled-up old maids portrayed in so much of popular culture.
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Back in Britain, and particularly in England, an attachment remained to the scenes of George Orwell's "old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings", the land where "the beer is bitterer, the coins are heavier [and] the grass is greener".
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The Catholic bride died soon after the wedding, but Anna Ivanovna was still unappeased, staging a mock wedding between the widower prince and one of her maids, forcing them to sleep naked in the ice-carved nuptial bed in the newly constructed ice palace.
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The refectory table seated between thirty-five and fifty, and Käthe, having acquired a large market garden and a considerable amount of livestock (pigs, goats), and now supervising a staff of up to ten employees (maids, a cook, a swineherd, et al.), fed them all.
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One relative success story has been the drop in underage Filipino maids in Hong Kong since Manila changed the legal age for women working abroad to 25 from 21 in 2006, said Cynthia Abdon-Tellez, general manager of the Mission For Migrant Workers charity.
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Accused of "abus de faiblesse," or exploiting the old woman's frailty, the photographer, François-Marie Banier, was bombarded at a trial in early 2015 by the testimony of maids, butlers, doctors and others who called him the dominating manipulator of an overmedicated, disoriented woman.
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They generally include the big kitchens, expansive bathrooms, high-end finishes, soaring ceilings, large windows, up-to-date building systems and acres of amenities that are now de rigueur, while largely eliminating relics of the past, like tiny maids' rooms for live-in help.
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But when I went out as an undercover journalist in the late 1990s to test the viability of entry-level jobs, I found my co-workers — waitstaff, nursing-home workers, maids with a cleaning service, Walmart "associates" — living for the most part in poverty.
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"When I am not there, the maids take down, in little books, everything she did, from what she ate, to how she behaved, if she was tired, and if she wasn't sleeping," he told Women's Wear Daily in an interview published in June 2012.
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The Devious Maids actress stepped out Thursday evening to co-host the 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, setting the red carpet aflame in a one-shoulder, body-hugging black gown featuring cut-outs throughout the bodice and a trumpet skirt.
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One agent, a 50-year-old known as 'Uncle', said those in his ranks, as well as the families of the girls, like to move maids regularly from one household to another because of the fresh commission it generates, and the higher wages they can demand.
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"Whenever we have a high-profile client, we train them that everybody signs an agreement — the maids, the guy who comes in to water the plants, the people who pick up the trash," said Dina LaPolt, a lawyer for Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and other stars.
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Maid In Manhattan was a great film, and an even greater fantasy, but all these years later, we're no closer to the darker realities that make maids so easy to overlook Read these stories next:The Hottest Movie Sex Scenes, Ever (NSFW)The Best Part Of Snapchat?
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The residents of Casa Mila called Señora Gaeta a treasure, and the laundry maids liked her because she sometimes joined in when they sang work songs; it seemed that once she had been just like them, for all the damask and cameo rings she wore now.
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In the new documentary, Elizabeth: Our Queen, Lady Anne Glenconner, who was one of the Queen's maids during her coronation, reveals that the monarch was in favor of Margaret's extramarital relationship with Roddy Llewellyn, a 26-year-old landscaper who was 17 years younger than the princess.
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Inspired by the disturbing trial in 1933 of Christine and Léa Papin—sisters and servants who murdered and mutilated their mistress and her adult daughter—"The Maids" follows a similar pair: Solange (Uzo Aduba from Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black") and Claire (Zawe Ashton, "Fresh Meat").
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When the lights go up, we see Strauss's maids and other serving women in dingy housedresses (the costumes are by Caroline de Vivaise) sweeping the stairs and cleaning the courtyard grounds in eerie pantomime, until the first gnashing orchestral blast sets the bloody tragedy in motion.
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The maids are sisters, Monique and Yvette, and when we first meet them, they are in the midst of the game they indulge in when La Doña is out: Yvette (Charlie Munn) is pretending to be the imperious mistress, while Monique (Casey Robinson) impersonates a humiliated Yvette.
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She moves effortlessly from Hollywood screen sirens in tight sweaters to frumpy aunties in high-necked blouses, from pin-up models in string bikinis to dishwashing housewives in rubber gloves, from efficient French maids in starched white aprons to docile BDSM submissives in bras and panties.
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You begin to tire after a while of the seeming randomness of events, as the leads appear dressed in maids' outfits or wedding gear or in complementary black lingerie that directly entices Mr. Dillane to fondle his co-star's bottom — and so he does on cue.
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At the swingin' Vegas pad of the brothers Bradley and Rodney Mitchum (last seen beating down and throwing out their casino manager after Dougie Jones won 30 consecutive jackpots), three pink-clad cocktail waitresses, Sandie, Mandie and Candie, flit around, serving as both maids and ornamentation.
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But, as one Twitter user pointed out, she and the 34 other Black women in Oscar history that were nominated across the Lead/Supporting Actress categories only earned the recognition for roles in which they were either slaves, maids, or burdened by the weight of poverty.
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Prosecutors used all of this to trace Mr. Guzmán's 30-year rise from a young, ambitious trafficker with a knack for speedy smuggling to a billionaire narco lord with an entourage of maids and secretaries, a portfolio of vacation homes — even a ranch with a personal zoo.
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When she allegedly murdered her second husband for taking another wife, his first wife—the purported Om Ali of dessert fame, who was thrown over at Al-Durr's behest—allegedly bribed some maids to murder her in the hammam by beating her to death with their shoes.
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Despite the circumstances that pulled many of his family members here toward the Democratic Party — being Hispanic in a city that was then overwhelmingly white, joining unions and working as waiters, maintenance employees and hotel maids — Mr. Rubio's time in Las Vegas would point him in a different direction.
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At a festival where only one of the 21 films selected to compete for the Golden Lion was directed by a woman, "Roma" was one of several that focused almost exclusively on female characters, in this case Cuaron's mother and the two maids who helped bring him up.
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Duterte banned the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait after the body of a Filipina housemaid was discovered in a freezer in a Kuwaiti home in February in what he said was the latest in a growing number of deaths and abuse of Filipina maids in the wealthy nation.
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Now only three years old, the EFF has shaken up South African politics with revolutionary rhetoric and attention-grabbing moves such as wearing workers' costumes to parliament—overalls, maids' uniforms—topped with Che Guevara-style red berets (these have become a must-have accessory for youth on the march).
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Filipino women are paddling for gold in this year's dragon boat races in Hong Kong, with one thing separating them from the competition - they are all maids, often taken for granted in the rich Chinese-ruled city, who no longer want to feel left out.
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In "Singlet" (at the Bushwick Starr, May 16-June 3), Markey draws on everything from Jean Genet's 1947 play "The Maids" to downloadable couples counselling and Olympic weight lifting to explore "the erotic undertones of a friendship," in a piece featuring Markey and Emily Davis (above, back to front).
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The tradition came with a heavy toll on daughters, many of whom were expected to stay home, looking after younger siblings while the parents toiled outside, or were even "sold away" to become sikmo: "cooking maids" who worked like slaves in the homes of rich families in cities.
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Women were sending back word of well-compensated employment as hairdressers, dressmakers, housekeepers, nannies, and maids, but the actual nature of their work in Italy remained hidden, and so parents urged their daughters to take out loans to travel to Europe and lift the family out of poverty.
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I accept long novels about young love written by old maids in South Dakota, detective stories concerning wealthy clubmen and female apaches with "wide dark eyes," essays about the menace of this and that and the color of the moon in Tahiti by college professors and other unemployed.
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Other nominees for the category included dances that leaned toward performance art, like Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson's "Chambre" — an adaptation of Genet's "The Maids," at the Crossing the Line Festival last year — and Maria Hassabi's "Plastic," in which performers were more like sluggish sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art.
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On one page, Marmee, the font of all wisdom, tells Meg and Jo that to be loved by a good man is the best thing that can happen to a woman, but, a few sentences later, Marmee says that it is better to be happy old maids than unhappy wives.
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When the Soviet Union set up the Intourist hotel and travel company under Stalin, the bellboys, drivers, cooks and maids all worked for the N.K.V.D., the secret police agency later known as the K.G.B. Also on the payroll were the prostitutes deployed to entrap and blackmail visiting foreign politicians and businessmen.
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