Gender
See -woman.
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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
The workwoman was a girl of from eighteen to twenty, rather below the middle size, and of a face and form little adapted to figure in a story.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
I am not a tradesman myself, and I don't care to make money out of a workwoman.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Charles Paul de Kock
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
In 1878 she heard that one of the workmen was about to marry a workwoman, since dead, who was blind, deformed, and very much out of health.
From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Frances Martin
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 heads of the manifold trades are naturally and properly concerned primarily with turning raw boys and girls into good workmen and workwomen.
From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott
Circulars were sent out to the old patrons and to new houses, and workmen, workwomen, and children straggled in to see what was going on.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
At the eighth Impressionist Exhibition, in 1886, Degas continued his realistic studies of modern life, showing drawings of the nude, of workwomen, and of jockeys.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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