The word "menial" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually refers to a job or task that is considered to be dull and repetitive, and is often considered to have a low social status. Example sentence: John was unsatisfied with his menial job at the grocery store and so he decided to look for a higher-paying position.
Overprotection is another barrier preventing disabled girls in India achieving an equal level of education, which in turn keeps them in menial low paying jobs.
And walk is probably the right word because when you can't really walk you realise how vulnerable and how impossible it is to do menial day-to-day tasks.
For workers in menial tasks, they would have been 15% higher.
The transfer of unskilled jobs to developing countries and of menial jobs to immigrants has put a new premium on education: today's rich-world youth has far more schooling than previous generations.
Later on, there will be programmes for repairing the education system (a committee on that is due to report next week) and promoting research and development in science and industry.Where have the menial workers gone?The trouble is making such ideas stick.
Many of those present had spent the last 20 years as the victims of the regime's bullying: for some, the fate was menial labour.
He moved to the West in 1957, worked in menial jobs and saved up enough money to open a shop in Stuttgart.
The daughter of rubber tappers in the Amazon, she learned to read as a teenager and did some of the menial jobs that many Brazilians labour in before becoming a star of the international environmental movement.
More recent arrivals moan that it is tough to find work, even the menial sort.
Although trimming the foreign workforce will theoretically free up jobs for locals, few Saudis seem likely to seek them, least of all those of the menial kind, which the kingdom's 19m citizens tend to shun.
Such artists were often forced into menial work and harassed by the secret police.
