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workingwoman

[wur-king-woom-uhn] / ˈwɜr kɪŋˌwʊm ən /


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One is the "little black dress," a Chanel revolution in the '20s and '30s, when it symbolized the offhand smartness of the modern workingwoman.

From Time Magazine Archive

In one of the many declarations the show makes about its heroine--in case anyone missed the point--Ally says, "I am a strong workingwoman whose life feels empty without a man."

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1998 I was a 49-year-old married workingwoman who found herself not feeling well.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't think she realized that I was a workingwoman.

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She had a way of making me feel like we were the same age, even though I was still in high school and she was a workingwoman in her twenties.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a plaintiff in the Washington suit, called comparable worth "pay equity for workingwomen."

From Time Magazine Archive

In effect, the Social Security taxes these workingwomen have paid earn them nothing.

From Time Magazine Archive

White House aides order in a print of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, the 1981 Oscar-winning romantic comedy about three young Soviet workingwomen who move with their dreams to the big city.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Queen Mary went to Stansted, England to open a home for British workingwomen, the children who were to present purses to Her Majesty were anxiously coached.

From Time Magazine Archive

In considering the condition of workingwomen during this unhappy period, the word "Vice," written large, must be constantly kept in mind.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld




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