career woman
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of career woman
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Princess Aiko's mother, Empress Masako, is known as a "career woman" princess and empress in Japan.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
The groundbreaking sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” about a single career woman in Minneapolis, debuted on CBS in Sept. 1970, just months before “All in the Family” started.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
But as a career woman, a lot of it is in reaction to what she couldn't do, what she didn't have a choice to do.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023
She was a career woman and her name kept bobbing up in the newspapers.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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