{"id":34678,"date":"2021-08-02T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/02\/indian-domestic-workers-lose-their-jobs-to-covid-fears"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:00:17","slug":"indian-domestic-workers-lose-their-jobs-to-covid-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34678","title":{"rendered":"Indian domestic workers lose their jobs to Covid fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaners no longer welcome in middle class homes, as wealthier Indians turn to machines for help<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The job paid a pittance, with two days off a month, and sometimes the mistress of the house would call out as part-time cleaner Noor Jahan was almost out of the door \u201cjust massage my feet before you leave\u201d \u2013 an extra service for which there was no pay.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Jahan, 56, wants the job back, despite a monthly salary of only 3,000 rupees (\u00a330) and the fact that \u201ccleaning\u201d served as a catch-all for cooking, ironing, watering the plants, and childcare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/02\/indian-domestic-workers-lose-their-jobs-to-covid-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaners no longer welcome in middle class homes, as wealthier Indians turn to machines for helpCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe job paid a pittance, with two days off a month, and sometimes the mistress of the house woul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34678\/revisions\/34679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}