Other forms: saleswomen
A saleswoman is a woman whose job is persuading people to buy. A good saleswoman, ask the saleswoman, the top saleswoman.
It is marked in a way salesman is not, and salesperson has largely replaced both in job advertisements. The plural is saleswomen, and the trade itself is the same whoever does it.
1nounsaleswomanA woman whose job is persuading people to buy.
“The saleswoman persuaded me to buy a more expensive phone than I needed.”
saleswoman is a worker.
Middle English
womman
English
woman
English, today
saleswoman
From sales + -woman. woman comes from Middle English womman. From Middle English womman, from earlier wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”) literally “female person”, a compound of wīf + mann. For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below. Cognate with Scots woman, weman (“woman”), stq Wieuwmoanske (“female person, female human, woman”). Similar construction can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human") and Afrikaans vroumens (“woman”) literally “woman-person”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA