Based on a true story, Netflix’s Maid has shone a light on what cleaners have to deal. We spoke to women who work as domestic cleaners about how they feel they are treated. 

Based on a true story, Netflixu2019s Maid has shone a light on what cleaners have to deal. We spoke to women who work as domestic cleaners about how they feel they are treated. 

Maid Netflix: what the women who tidy up after us really think

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There’s a stigma with being a cleaner because you’re cleaning someone else’s muck up

You get people that ignore you if you say ‘morning’ to them, which can be degrading

You see the real side to people when you clean their homes

We’re taught that women have to be in the kitchen and doing the cleaning. I hate that attitude

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“You see the real side of people when you clean their homes”

Confessions of a cleaner: what it’s really like for the women who tidy up after us