workingwoman
Americannoun
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workingwomen
plural
Gender
See -woman.
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Origin of workingwoman
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One is the "little black dress," a Chanel revolution in the '20s and '30s, when it symbolized the offhand smartness of the modern workingwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1998 I was a 49-year-old married workingwoman who found herself not feeling well.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one of the many declarations the show makes about its heroine--in case anyone missed the point--Ally says, "I am a strong workingwoman whose life feels empty without a man."
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't think she realized that I was a workingwoman.
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She had a way of making me feel like we were the same age, even though I was still in high school and she was a workingwoman in her twenties.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
White House aides order in a print of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, the 1981 Oscar-winning romantic comedy about three young Soviet workingwomen who move with their dreams to the big city.
From Time Magazine Archive
In effect, the Social Security taxes these workingwomen have paid earn them nothing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a plaintiff in the Washington suit, called comparable worth "pay equity for workingwomen."
From Time Magazine Archive
That is the most compelling argument against any notion that companies can afford to sideline the millions of workingwomen who will decide to become mothers as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here also the movement of the workingwomen had progressed to the stage of organization, as, for example, in the case of the Lombard women workers in the rice fields.
From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Kaethe Schirmacher
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