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How many can afford it?

Now that there's a new law that increases salary of domestic workers to Sh7, 586, looks like women may have to go the European-style of day care centres, writes MAUREEN AKINYI

As the domestic workers’ pay hike debate continues to generate controversy, both the women who employ them and house helps themselves are caught between a rock and a hard place.

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