Wealthy families are increasingly hiring housekeepers with higher educations.
Wealthy families are increasingly hiring housekeepers with higher educations. According to media reports, candidates are young, cultured and fluent in at least one foreign language, and many are also skilled in sports and arts. Many on social media said that the trend signals healthy development of the housekeeping industry, where employers are offering higher salaries for better services and providing job opportunities to young people amid the economic slowdown. However, other comments reinforced the social stigma in China that housekeeping is an inferior profession akin to servitude.