Men should play a more active role in hiring househelps

I have always held that there is no position more difficult to hire for than that of Domestic Facilitator, otherwise known as househelp, best known as ‘mboch’. It is common knowledge, of course, that the real job is ‘Unofficial Wife’.

Because that one person plays so many roles, because the title contains within it such a multitude of competencies and skills, it can be quite challenging to properly advertise, interview and hire an ideal candidate. Which is why the lazier ones delegate the entire process to their mothers and aunties. “Find me someone”, we tell them, a broad and especially unhelpful job description that they somehow interpret to mean ‘Get me a small, ideally young girl who can scrub pots from sun-up to sun-down’.