female job titles
is there a female version/answer for the following professions.
mechanic - mecanico
postman - cartero
air hostess - azafata
accountant - contable
Thank you
1 Answer
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
Azafata already is feminine, but when I googled azafato there were no suggestions. So probably no masculine equivalent. It seems that a guy would also be una azafata.
Ditto, but in reverse, for mecanico. Mecanica doesn't mean a female mechanic, it means the art of mechanicing.
La cartera, as you probably know, means billfold, so ditto that.
Un contable also refers to a man or a woman. However another word for accountant, contador, has a feminine version: la contadora.
I always though that the last name of favorite cyclist, Alberto Contador, was very prosaic for such an explosive rider.
