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{{Short description|1972 Cordelia Gray novel by P. D. James}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
| author = [[P. D. James]]
| language = English
| country = United Kingdom
| genre = [[Mystery novel|Mystery]]
| publisher = [[Faber & Faber]]
| isbn = 0-446-31517-6|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| title_orig = 
| translator = 
| image = Image:Jobfora woman.jpg
| caption = First edition
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| series = [[Cordelia Gray]] No. 1
| release_date = 1972
| media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
| pages = 287  
| isbn_note = (Paperback edition)
| oclc = 31623136
| preceded_by = 
| followed_by = [[The Skull Beneath the Skin]]
}}

'''''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman''''' is the title of a [[detective novel]] by English writer [[P. D. James]] and of a TV series of four dramas developed from that novel. It was published by [[Faber and Faber]] in the UK<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gdG5ByszkaoC Google Books]</ref> in 1972 and by [[Charles Scribner's Sons]] in the US.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/604944 World Catalog]</ref>

The book features private detective [[Cordelia Gray]], the protagonist of both this title and ''[[The Skull Beneath the Skin]]'' (1982). It is noted for introducing a new type of female detective at the start of the [[Feminism|feminist]] era.