In the Privacy of our own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere in Canada

Despite marked increases in the participation of women in the labour force, neither the availability and quality of socialized child care arrangements nor the division of housework between men and women appear to have changed radically. The structure, demands and pressures of the labour market in Canada allow for less flexibility in the accommodation of family needs and responsibilities than is the case in several European countries. Under these circumstances, housework and child care remain private burdens to be shouldered mainly by women, who must either work double and triple days or find substitutes.