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One January day in 2000, a happy young man, her husband, came around to tell me Reshma has had a baby—a boy. Two weeks later, Reshma was back at work, reed thin but without the belly this time—quiet, smiling and diligent.
She must have been at least seven months pregnant when she started working with us, but she did not tell me fearing I may not have hired a pregnant woman. She told me, much later, she had lost two jobs already because she announced to the employer that she was pregnant. And in one of those houses she has been employed for over four years. That is India’s domestic worker for you—invisible and unrecognized, overworked, underpaid and abused.
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