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A career woman is a woman whose main priority in life is achieving success in her career or profession. It may specifically refer to a higher interest in career than in marriage and having children. It can thereby be used in contrast to housewife, or following the " mommy track". Rather, career women may form relations with " Dual Income, No Kids".
Career Woman is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Lamar Trotti. The film stars Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden, Virginia Field and Gene Lockhart. The film was released on December 18, 1936, by 20th Century Fox.
Usage examples of "career woman".
Possibly she was putting on the young career woman a bit, but she did have to leave the table in the Empire Room twice, when the headwaiter came and said with a bow that CBS was on the telephone.
In the morning Etan was the armored career woman once again: ash blonde hair swept back and tied in a chignon.
Cicely had been an organized career woman of impeccable taste who had guarded her privacy fiercely.
She had her mum as an unpaid child-minder so she was able to keep on playing at being the career woman.