criadas

English translation: maids / cleaning ladies

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Spanish term or phrase:criadas
English translation:maids / cleaning ladies
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

16:46 Jun 14, 2019
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Human Resources
Spanish term or phrase: criadas
This is a text about early feminism in Mexico:

La feminista norteamericana subsumía la transformación del lugar de la mujer a la revolución social. En la sociedad mexicana, dicho lugar estaba pautado por la insersión laboral de la mujer, que representaba el veinte por ciento de la fuerza de trabajo, en un sector destinado a los servicios (criadas, meseras, empleadas de limpieza sometidas a la opresión y la explotación). Para cambiar el lugar de la mujer, sostenía Randall, era necesario transformar la sociedad.

childcare workers?

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 14:22
maids / cleaning ladies
Explanation:
it refers to cleaning ladies, most commonly referred as maids.
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Raul Guerrero
Ecuador
Local time: 12:22
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5 +5maids / cleaning ladies
Raul Guerrero
4 +2maids/housemaids
Adolfo Fulco
4 +1Maid / Servant
Patricio Lohr


  

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maids / cleaning ladies


Explanation:
it refers to cleaning ladies, most commonly referred as maids.

Example sentence(s):
  • Please tell the cleaning lady (maid) to clean my room first
Raul Guerrero
Ecuador
Local time: 12:22
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adolfo Fulco: Claro, *maids*. Saludos :)
0 min

agree  neilmac: No doubt there's a "gender neutral" term out there somewhere, but it is what it is.
46 mins

agree  MLG
49 mins

agree  JohnMcDove
5 hrs

agree  Myrtha Russell de Martin: It would be *maids* for sure BUT only in American English
10 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
maids/housemaids


Explanation:
Diría.

Adolfo Fulco
Argentina
Local time: 14:22
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adrian MM.: Housemaids. Cruelly called 'skivvies!' at boarding schools in the UK: www.thefreedictionary.com/skivvy
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Adrian! I did not know that!

agree  JohnMcDove
5 hrs
  -> Gracias, John ;)
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Maid / Servant


Explanation:
Actually, in Latin America the term "criada" is wider, more like a maid I would say.

Patricio Lohr
Chile
Local time: 14:22
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  JohnMcDove
5 hrs
  -> ¡Gracias!
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