e-Shram data: At 5 am, 29-year-old Rajni begins with housework before leaving her one-room home to work in three or four homes. She cleans utensils, mops floors and cooks breakfast. By afternoon, she is back home to cook lunch and help her children with schoolwork. Some evenings, she takes extra work. For years, Rajni, who lives in Rohtak, Haryana, described her occupation as gharo me kaam (house help). The families she worked for called her a maid, not a worker.