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 machine to sew hurries everything, and you find the workwoman sans ambition and busy only to hurry and be one with the machine.

From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Campbell, Helen

The workwoman forms the hollow inside of the vessel by means of a round stone which she holds in her hand while she works and smooths the outside with a piece of poplar bark.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

Then my father died; and I came to Paris, where I went into a shop as a simple workwoman.

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

Let this workwoman, whom the opposition of the convent has crushed, crawl to the gate of the convent—can she find an asylum there?

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules