Why Malaysia needs maids more than they want to admit

From Bernama:

With 34 per cent of management positions held by women in Malaysia, the Southeast Asian nation is only slightly behind China which, at 36 per cent, remains the region's diversity leader.

According to recruiting expert Hays' 2015 Hays Asia Salary Guide, the figure for Malaysia was up from 29 per cent last year.

Malaysia was followed by Hong Kong (31 per cent, down from 33 per cent the previous year) and Singapore (27 per cent, unchanged year-on-year).

 The excerpt above is from Bernama regarding the high percentage of women in the work force.  Malaysia is one of the exceptions when it comes to work place diversity.  But our high work place diversity isn't possible without some help from other countries.

Maids in Malaysia have gotten a bad rap.  Indonesia now doesn't want to send us maids and agent fees have increased by a large amount.  A lot of Malaysians say we don't need maids in Malaysia.    But Malaysia as a whole needs them as an economic backbone.

One of the main reasons for the outstanding diversity in the work place is that if you take a sample of working mothers with children, in top management, a large portion of them will have maids for help on home matters.  It is extremely difficult for women to be in the work force if maids were scarce in Malaysia.

On economics terms, Malaysia take note, maids help the nation grow its revenues.  If families don't have maids, likely one of the parents will have to stop working and women leaving the work force is never good