Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART I Global and regional statistics -- Chapter 2. Definitions, sources and methodology -- Definition of domestic workers -- Data sources -- Methodology for global and regional estimates -- Chapter 3. Global and regional estimates -- Global overview: Domestic workers across the world -- Trends from 1995 to 2010 -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Asia and the Pacific -- Middle East -- Africa -- Developed countries, Eastern Europe and CIS -- Summary: Rising employment in a vulnerable sector -- PART II The extent of legal protection -- Chapter 4. National labour legislation and domestic workers -- New international instruments for the protection of domestic workers -- Exclusion of domestic workers from legal protections -- Methodology for the legal coverage estimates -- The scope of national labour legislation -- Chapter 5. Working time -- Domestic workers: Working day and night? -- Current working time regulation for domestic workers -- Normal weekly hours -- Weekly rest -- Paid annual leave -- Summary -- Chapter 6. Minimum wagesand in-kind payments -- Wages of domestic workers and reasons for low pay -- Minimum wages -- In-kind payments -- Summary -- Chapter 7. Maternity protection -- Maternity leave -- Maternity cash benefits -- Other elements of maternity protection -- Conclusions and points for consideration -- Chapter 8. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Appendix I: Methodology for global and regional estimates -- a) Concepts and definitions -- b) Global and regional estimates on the number of persons employed as domestic workers -- Census approach -- Estimation of country-level statistical data for 2010 -- Treatment of non-response for statistical data -- Estimating routine for global and regional estimates.

c) Estimates on the coverage of domestic workersby key working conditions laws -- Treatment of non-response and estimation routine for legal coverage estimates -- Appendix II: National source statistics -- Appendix III:Coverage of domestic workersunder national legislation -- List of figures -- Figure 3.1 Distribution of domestic workers by sex and region, 2010 -- Figure 3.2 Total employment and employment of domestic workers in Spain, 1995-2011 -- Figure 4.1 Coverage of domestic workers by national labour legislation across the world, 2010 -- Figure 5.1 Average hours of work for domestic workers, per week (latest available year) -- Figure 5.2 Limitation of normal weekly hours of work for domestic workers under national legislation, 2010 -- Figure 5.3 Entitlement to weekly rest (at least 24 consecutive hours) for domestic workersunder national legislation, 2010 -- Figure 5.4 Entitlement to annual leave for domestic workers under national legislation, 2010 -- Figure 6.1 Average wages of domestic workers, in per cent of average wagesfor all paid employees (latest available year) -- Figure 6.2 Member organizations of the International Domestic Workers' Network (IDWN),May 2012 -- Figure 6.3 Trends in real minimum wages and real average wages of domestic workersin Brazil, 1995-2011 (in constant 2010 BRL) -- Figure 6.4 Minimum wage coverage for domestic workers, 2010 -- Figure 6.5 Permissible in-kind payments of minimum wages, 2010 -- Figure 7.1 Entitlement to maternity leave for domestic workers under national legislation, 2010 -- Figure 7.2 Entitlement to maternity cash benefits for domestic workers under national legislation, 2010 -- List of tables -- Table 2.1 Coverage of the ILO's statistical database on domestic workers, 2010 -- Table 2.2 India: Employment by industry subcategories and sex, 2004/05 (NIC 2004).

Table 3.1 Global and regional estimates on the number of domestic workers in 2010, by sex -- Table 3.2 Estimates of number of children in domestic work by age and sex, 2008 -- Table 3.3 Global and regional estimates on the number of domestic workers in 1995 and 2010, by sex -- Table 4.1 Coverage of the combined statistical and legal database on domestic workers, 2010 -- Table A1.1 Private households with employed persons under different revisionsof the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) -- Table A1.2 Regional groupings -- Table A1.3 Coverage of the statistical database on domestic workers -- Table A1.4 Coverage of the combined statistical and legal database on domestic workers -- Table A2.1 Number of domestic workers and their share in total employment, by sex (latest available year) -- Table A3.1 Coverage of domestic workers by working time, minimum wageand maternity protection laws, by country (2010) -- List of boxes -- Box 2.1 How to count domestic workers? Alternative approaches to identifying domestic workers in household surveys -- Box 2.2 India: 2.5 or 90 million domestic workers?* -- Box 3.1 Measuring child domestic work* -- Box 4.1 Severe forms of exploitation and forced domestic labour* -- Box 6.1 Towards strong and effective domestic workers' organizations* -- Box 6.2. Minimum wage increases and domestic workers in Brazil* -- Box 6.3 The Wages Commission for Domestic Workers in Namibia.