girl-hour
English
Noun
girl-hour (plural girl-hours)
- (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 - Page 56, published by Chilton Company
- THEN by adopting automatic cartoning machine, productivity per girl-hour was increased by one-third.
- 1950, Food Engineering - Volume 22 - Page 56, published by Chilton Company
See also
- kilogirl-hour