chairwoman

[Maggott]

Hi  Don't be too sure - women worked at chair-caning ie putting the seats/backs on chairs as out-workers.  Some of my Surrey & Sussex ancestors did it
Maggott

[ACProctor]

An occupation of “chair woman” may be found in several census pages of England and Wales, and it usually confuses people into looking for strange occupations involving a chair. It is actually a version of “charwoman”, previously “chare woman” (related to “chore woman”) which was pronounced as “chair [Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chare : accessed 9 Jun 2017), s.v. “Chare”.]