| 单词 | woman's work |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman's work woman's work n. = women's work n. at Compounds 5.Cf. a woman's work is never done at Phrases 1d. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > women's work distaffc1386 woman's work1890 kitchen sink1926 kinder, kirche, küche1935 a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 141 (MED) Whan they werkyn the manys werk, they getyn childeryn, and they that werkyn the womanys werk, they beryn chylderyn. 1680 R. Baxter Nonconformists Advocate 76 The humility reported of Raguel his mother, in taking woman's work to do. 1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets V. xiii. 108 All this is woman's work you know, Sir. I am but an aukward chamber-man. 1890 A. J. Armstrong Ingleside Musings 139 Thae bairns are just a woman's wark To keep them clean an' tidy. 1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium ix. 258 I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well. 1971 K. Millett Sexual Politics (1972) i. ii. 39 The ‘woman's work’ in which some two thirds of female population..are engaged is work that is not paid for. 2008 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 10 Sept. b5 Is the assumption that..[he] is not capable of raising his family as well as Sarah? Or that raising a family is only woman's work? < as lemmas |
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