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'woman' is considered a synonym of 'cleaning woman' #920

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jmccrae opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #924
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'woman' is considered a synonym of 'cleaning woman' #920

jmccrae opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #924
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jmccrae commented May 30, 2023

Affected synsets
oewn-09930684-n (Interlingual Index: i88932)
(n) char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman

a human female employed to do housework “the char will clean the carpet” “I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write”

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Remove 'woman' from this synset

Motivation
I think that this synset is quite sexist and equating 'woman' with 'cleaning woman' is not correct and the example that motivates it seems to be a case of hypernymic metonymy

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