In Barbara's essay "Maid to Order - The politics of other women's work" , Barbara goes into detail about the detail about maids or house cleaners. Barbara discusses the relationships between the homeowner and the maid and the relationship between husband and wife and how house work determines the social dominance in both relationships. She addresses gender issues and how housework predominantly done by women and different reasons for this. Later she discuss independent house cleaners and the conditions that they go through claiming race, language boundries ,and education levels are the reason for this. Later in her essay she tends to focus on economic class boundries as opposed to gender stereotypes.