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 seated herself on one of the swept stone steps, still holding the child in her arms, and they gazed long and earnestly at the writing above them.

From Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Barry, Fanny

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

She was an unskilled workwoman, not especially gifted in any way or fitted by her upbringing to earn her daily bread.

From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray

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 Jókai, Mór