Part time jobs for women and housewives, close to home
Paid work in homes near yours, not work from home: cooking, cleaning, childcare and elder care. You choose the hours and the area, agree the pay with the family directly, and keep all of it.
Paid work that fits around your own home
Many women want to earn without leaving home for the whole day: a few hours while the children are at school, or an evening job once the house is settled. Household work is one of the few jobs that fits that, because the work is in the next building or the next street, and the hours are fixed by agreement.
This is not work from home. It is paid work in homes near yours. Families on Sevetu post what they need, such as a cook for breakfast and lunch, someone for the dishes and floors, or a didi to pick a child up from school. You apply to the ones that fit your hours and your area.
There is no agent in the middle. You talk to the family, you agree the pay, the hours and the weekly off, and it is written down. Sevetu charges you nothing, now or later.
The kind of work families post
Cooking
Breakfast, tiffin, lunch or dinner for one family. If you cook for your own home every day, this is the work you already know. Cook jobs →
Cleaning and dishes
Sweeping, mopping, dishes and laundry, usually one or two hours in each home, in the morning. Housekeeping jobs →
Children
Looking after a child, school pick-up, help with meals and homework, often in the afternoon. Nanny jobs →
Older people
Company, meals and medicines on time, a walk in the evening. Patience counts for more than certificates. Caretaker jobs →
Mother and newborn
Japa care after a delivery: massage, bathing the baby, the mother's food and rest, for the first weeks.
A bit of everything
Some families want one person for cooking and cleaning. It is two jobs, so agree it and the pay as two.
Choose hours that work for your family
Staying safe at a new house
These are the habits women who have done this work for years pass on to each other.
Talk first, in the app
Your phone number stays private until you decide to share it. Ask what the work is, who lives in the house and what time they want you.
Agree everything before day one
Work, hours, pay, pay date and weekly off. On Sevetu it goes into a digital work agreement both of you accept.
Go in daylight, not alone
Tell someone at home the address. Take your husband, sister or a friend the first time if you can. A good family will understand.
Never pay, never hand over originals
No registration fee, no deposit, no keeping your Aadhaar card. Anyone who asks for these is not hiring you honestly.
More in our guide: your first day at a new house, how to stay safe.
How to start in four simple steps
Download the Sevetu app
Sevetu is free on Android and iPhone. There is nothing to pay, now or later.
Create your free profile
Add your experience, the work you can do, your languages and the hours that suit you.
Get ID-verified
Complete a one-time identity (KYC) check so families can see a Verified badge on your profile.
Apply to jobs near you
Browse household jobs across your area and apply to the ones that fit. Families chat with you directly.
Frequently asked questions
No, and we would rather say so at the start. This is paid work in other people's homes near yours: cooking, cleaning, looking after a child or keeping an older person company. What you choose is how close, which hours and which kind of work.
Yes. Running a home is the experience families are looking for. If you cook for your own family every day, you already do what a cook does. Write that on your profile in plain words: what you cook, for how many people, and which hours you are free.
Yes. Most part time household work is two or three hours in the morning or the evening, in one or two homes close by. Set the hours you can give on your profile and apply only to jobs that fit them.
No. Sevetu is free for workers and always will be. There is no registration fee, no deposit and no cut from your salary. If anyone asks you for money to get a job on Sevetu, they are not from Sevetu.
No. Families care far more about whether you can do the work, reach them on time and speak a language they speak at home. List every language you speak.
Chat in the app first, where your number stays private. Agree the work, hours and pay before the first day. Go in daylight the first time, tell someone at home the address, and take someone with you if you can. Never give original documents or pay a deposit to anyone.
For the free identity (KYC) check you need your Aadhaar or another government ID. You keep your documents. Nobody should hold your originals.
The family pays you directly, on the date you agree. Sevetu does not handle the money and takes no commission, so what you agree is what you get. The pay, hours and weekly off are written into a digital work agreement.
Jobs for women in your city
Every city page lists the kinds of household work families there post.
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Find work near home, from your phone
Sevetu is free on Google Play and the App Store. Create your profile, choose your hours, and apply.