girl-hour

English

Etymology

girl +‎ hour

Noun

girl-hour (plural girl-hours)

1. (historical, obsolete) A unit of computing power in the context of 1940s–1970s technology equal to one female worker working for one hour, for example, writing code or entering data to punch cards.
   • 1950, Food Engineering, volume 22, Chilton Company, page 56:

     THEN by adopting automatic cartoning machine, productivity per girl-hour was increased by one-third.

See also

• kilogirl-hour