Gender
See -woman.
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Noun Inflected Forms
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Origin of workwoman
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His Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yes, I am afraid I am very little indeed," returned the child, and began to sob, so that the milliner was touched, and took her in hand and made her a clever workwoman.
From Charles Dickens' Children Stories by Charles Dickens
A great sensation was caused in Italy a few decades ago when a humble workwoman, Signora Bassani, succeeded in rediscovering the peculiar stitch of the celebrated Venetian point, which had been lost for centuries.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
A workwoman, friends, she, no less than a princess; and princess most in being so.
From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by John Ruskin
He was simply told to go and work in the company's colliery, where there was better pay; and the workman or workwoman imagined this was an advance, not a degradation.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
The workwomen who are able to execute certain more difficult parts of the watch get higher wages, and can earn from five to ten francs a day.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2011
Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or bows over their right eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ladies of the parish would not let Miss B—— hire workwomen, but came and did things with their own hands.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
"I have tried it, madame," said the same speaker, who had mourned over the degeneration of finish among the workwomen.
From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell
The tradesmen and workmen and workwomen in England were driven crazy in their efforts to carry out the ideas and commands of their employers.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
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