working woman
14
3.2
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkɪŋ ˈwʊmən/
:
trabajadora
- She started a group for working women.
- conditions for working women
- time for working women
I feel like this represents so many everyday working women.
- I feel like this represents so many everyday working women.
- So apparently a few of you have asked how does gender and working women affect income distribute the income distribution.
Examples
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I think the complications a family adds for a working woman are vastly unappreciated by the community.
Academic text (1995) -
Results further indicated that the younger working women had the least tolerance for sexual harassment.
Academic text (1996) -
I felt she was a hard working woman, with all them kids.
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It's a struggle, but I think every working woman has thought that before.
Academic text (1998) -
Sociologists say the new working woman is a phenomenon of our time.
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I smile every time I think of the hardest working woman in Nevada politics, Dina Titus.
Blog text (28) -
For working women, pumping and breastfeeding during work are associated with a longer duration of breastfeeding.
Academic text (2011) -
Nearly three-quarters of female instigators were working women, as were 69 percent of men.
Academic text (1996) -
Katherine had served twice on committees to resettle single, working women in South Africa after the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Academic text (2003) -
Many working women contribute significantly to their families' incomes.
Synonyms
3
3.3
A woman who has a job and earns money
1
4.2
A woman who makes things by hand and is very skilled
1
8.2
A woman who finished training and works as a skilled craft worker
A woman who does paid work in a factory or manual job
A woman who does physical work in a factory or workshop
A woman with special training who does a job well
A woman who does skilled work with her hands like carpentry
A female worker who does different jobs when needed
How Career-Focused
- Offensive
3
6.3
9
3.5
- Archaic
3
3.8
14
3.2
8
3.0
28
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a woman who is employed' is directly and compositionally derived from 'working' (engaged in paid work) + 'woman' (an adult female). This adjective+noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Working woman comes from the simple picture of a woman who is working outside the home, for example in a factory or shop. So, the phrase came to mean 'a woman who is employed', especially in manual or industrial jobs.