"Maid to Order" Blog Response

I believe that this piece was written for the higher class who can afford to hire maids. Although Ehrenreich talks a lot about the changes in women's roles in the household, specifically in terms of household cleaning, Ehrenreich spends a majority of time speaking about how maids are degraded. At one point Ehrenreich says, "An early German women's liberation cartoon depicted a woman scrubbing on her hands and knees while her husband, apparently excited by this pose, approaches from behind, unzipping his fly". This cartoon represents how Ehrenreich feels maids are treated: they are viewed as inferior and are not treated with respect. She also says, "Within a customer's house, nothing was to touch our lips at all, not even water - a rule that, on hot days, I sometimes broke by drinking from a bathroom faucet". Maids are human beings too. They shouldn't be denied basic rights, especially water. So, her message goes out to the people who can afford to hire maids. She wishes for the upper-class to treat their hired help better.