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

One Saturday night, when the workwoman was there, her son came to fetch her home, and she somehow smuggled him into the empty nursery to wait until she was ready to go home with him.

From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Broderip, Frances Freeling

I am not a tradesman myself, and I don't care to make money out of a workwoman.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

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

In 1878 she heard that one of the workmen was about to marry a workwoman, since dead, who was blind, deformed, and very much out of health.

From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances