Kindly provide one basing on what u said.
The question is posed under the faulty premise of the woman having the sole responsibility of dealing with the house help, which though admittedly traditional, still condescends all notions of equality in the house and subscribes to the bias that presupposes that only the woman is responsible for directing household chores, including scheduling the house help/maid.
The liberal approach of normative feminism holds that men and women are entitled to equal rights and respect, which involve equal share of the housework.The descriptive approach of the same school of thought identifies deficiencies in meeting this ideal and potrays this as an actual and undesirable imbalance in society.
As long as the identified and almost automatic deep rooted imbalance is not removed, women will remain -sadly unfairly - responsible to answer for the entire domestic scene unnecessarily.
As long as women bring to the table for a fair discussion and balanced division of labor - a balance which may criss cross the traditional roles- then at the very least, if there will appear any failure in the structure it can be argued to be stemming from a collective effort, and the woman will cease to assume full responsibility.
In other words, my point is, why should the woman be the one to decide the house maids schedule? This can be a family decision, and from there, if something mischievious prevail, the responsibility -if not just guilty conscious- will not solely be the womans.
There is a huge need to dismantle some of these traditional roles - especially if they are not working, offensive, oppressive and chauvinistic-.Of course there are circumstances where every member of the family unit is actually very happy with some of these traditional roles.From a utilitarian point of view I have to agree with the practicality of these even though in principle they may prove backwards as far as equality concepts are concerned.
For specific examples, a house with a father who cooks at lest some of the days -perhaps weekends and purely due to interest in the culinary art and ethnic cuisines, a culturally sensitive and emotionally secure man, a modern man - will probably have more of an interest and therefore say, in deciding that the house maid is not required on weekends, if only just to give dad room in the kitchen to show his skills and love for his family.
Sadly enough and as many of you know, in too many of our indigeneous cultures, the tradition is that the kitchen is the woman's domain, some traditions even forbid men access to the kitchen, so I fully understand the clash of civilization posed by my sometimes too bookish and theoretical approach.But I basically see that as the solution.
To use a politician's phrase, the question is not whether mama should allow the housemaid to do all the work all the time or not, the real question is to involve the father, sisters and brothers in housework, including kitchen work, and find these as enjoyable family activities. In the process the family maid will automatically get her/his break and the family will bond some more.
The original problem posed by the housemaid taking over will be solved, and the family will gain by bonding much more.