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

She resolved therefore to become a workwoman, and to employ in this way the leisure she possessed from household avocations.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

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

She had felt ashamed to be paid as a workwoman by one once her friend, and in social rank her equal; but now she raised her head, with a noble frankness and spirit.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

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 Zahm, John Augustine