Or they washed clothes. Madam C.J.Walker worked as a washerwoman for twenty years.
VOA: special.2010.03.28
Popular treatments of the minimum wage point to Wanda Washerwoman and declare the policy a success because she now earns higher wages than she used to.
Angelina Cruz, a 64-year-old washerwoman whose husband is unemployed, is one of the faithful who waited more than six hours to see Estrada in San Juan.