women workers
Ladies in workforce
Women workers are women who are employed, especially in manual or industrial labor.
The phrase often appears in historical and political contexts discussing labor rights, workplace conditions, or gender discrimination: Women workers in the garment industry organized for better wages.
The term emphasizes gender where it might otherwise go unmarked, sometimes to highlight inequality or collective action.
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
- domestic workerHired help at residence
- pink collarWork typed as feminine
- suffragetteMilitant women's voting advocate
- gender discriminationPrejudice based on sex
Rosie the Riveter · Title VII · glass ceiling · workplace harassment · nurse · picket · engineer · scientist · childcare support · artist · wage gap · writer · entrepreneur · feminist · clerical worker · nine to five · diversity initiatives · teacher
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- Canadian WartimeCanadian Army, D-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront
- war supportwar bonds, victory gardens, rations, Red Cross, volunteers
- women's laborfemale workforce, labor force participation, employment rates, gender pay gap, equal pay
women workersworkingmen
Male wage laborers
businessmen · craftsmen · tradesmen · workmen · manpower