1905 Baroness Orczy xx. 194 ‘But, Lady Blakeney,’ said the young man, touched by the gentle earnestness of this exquisitely beautiful woman, ‘do you know that what you propose doing is man's work?—you cannot possibly journey to Calais alone.’
1991 S. Cisneros 86 It's from the planting in the tlacolol, from the hard man's work I do clearing the field with the hoe and the machete..work no woman would do before the war.