workingwoman

Example Sentences

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A child of the Depression and a workingwoman of the ’50s, my mother was grateful for a freezer and TV dinners that she’d serve as though she were offering us caviar.

From New York Times

From his ethical speculations and social experiments are projected figures like that of Maria Paulovna, a rich and beautiful woman who prefers to live like a common workingwoman and is drawn by her social conscience into the revolutionary vortex.

From Project Gutenberg

They knew her to be an artisan's wife, an ordinary workingwoman.

From Project Gutenberg

If Calvin Klein is the icon of minimalism, Ralph Lauren the elegant esquire and Donna Karan the workingwoman's tailor, Jacobs is the eclectic sampler who has ushered in an era of sophisticated charm in fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

How about one more nomination to the pantheon of business giants: the American workingwoman--Femella commercia Americana--the one who is pushing against the glass ceiling despite its seeming indestructibility.

From Time Magazine Archive