With regard to the article "Will Saudi recruitment problems ever end?" (Sep. 4), I fail to understand why Saudis need housemaids. I have spent most my life in Europe and North America, and I never saw that women in the West need housemaids. Women in the West work in offices as well as at home without maids, while women in the Middle East do not work in offices but they still need maids. Why do recruited housemaids run away? The simple answer is: They not treated well and they are not paid well. Asad, Online response
Before the oil boom, GCC families did all the work at home alone without the need of "help", I refuse to call them maids because they are human. I understand the need of some help from time to time,which is normal, but overall, many chores and duties at home can be distributed among family members. Instead of lazing around and doing nothing, the work can always be done. Many people around the world survive without helpers, so did our ancestors, so why can't we now?
