SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL DIMENSIONS OF SERVANT MAIDS IN VIJAYAWADA

Abstract

Professional maid servants provide services in households such as cleaning, cooking and taking care of the babies and senior citizens. Reliable and worthy maids are high in demand and many agencies established today and provide servant maids to the needy people on contact or consult. The services of servant maids became a blessing in today's fast paced lives where everyone is running to fulfill the demands of work, home, children and take care of ailing or ageing family members. The servant maid shows satisfactory psychometrical properties in a large sample of domestic cores of many households. The rationale for its development of this study was twofold. The servant maids, first, residential maid services are important for busy homeowners who do not have the time or energy to keep up with household chores, and the second, for those who want to maintain a clean and healthy home environment. The main objective of this research paper is to measure the social and economical aspects of home care servant maids with reference to their perceptions. In this purpose Vijayawada has been selected as study area and 350 servant maids were considered as sample, and data was collected with the help of a research schedule. The analyses in this research paper indicate servant maids are suitable for both of these purposes. As the workforce shortage in community homecare service is a problem in many countries, the relevance of the content of the instrument is high. It is for this reason recommended for potential future use also in international contexts.