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Originally Posted by cassiesheepgirl
Yeah, the reason I suggested businessman instead of just covering all under office worker was thinking of the likes of Lawrence from Spice and Wolf an Richard Jones from Victorian Romance Emma - they own their own businesses but don't work in offices. Likewise something like Businessman would cover merchants as well as those higher up that work in say, the media or music etc - merchant wouldn't cover those.
As for the feminine then maybe just use office worker instead of salaryman - I'm trying to think of a non gender-specific version of businessman that would cover the above.
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I would say "Office Worker" and "Merchant" would do a good job at covering all the areas without being gender-specific.