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We should be aiming to mop floors at least once a week. Getty Images
We should be aiming to mop floors at least once a week. Getty Images
Cleaning up our language: Why we should retire the use of the word 'maid'
It’s outdated, gendered and harks back to an exploitative era of employment that we all should have moved on from
Nyree McFarlane
April 13, 2019