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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

働く女性

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hataraku josei

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Working woman/ˈwɜːrkɪŋ ˈwʊmən/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"働く女性は多くの役割を果たしています。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A woman who is employed or engaged in work, particularly in a professional or paid capacity.

    "As a working woman, she balances her career and family responsibilities."
  2. 2

    A term often used to highlight the challenges and achievements of women in the workforce.

    "The conference focused on the experiences of working women in various industries."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines the Old English 'wyrcan' (to work), derived from Proto-Germanic *werkaną, with 'wīman' (woman), from Proto-Germanic *wīfabwīniz. Emerging in its modern compound sense during the industrialization era, it gained prominent socio-economic usage in the 20th century as women increasingly entered the formal paid workforce.

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