taskmistress

English

Etymology

From task +‎ mistress.

Noun

taskmistress (plural taskmistresses)

A woman who assigns tasks; a female overseer.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman‎:
  Not only under the lash of my task-mistress, but the drudge of the maid, apprentices and children, I never had a taste of human kindness to soften the rigour of perpetual labour.

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