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Yes, it sounds like she is misunderstanding it in this case. "One-woman show" doesn't imply that it's just a facade, fake project (which she seems to take from

• phire 5y ago
  And usually has positive connotations. Most of the time you use the "one-woman show" idiom is when you are impressed that one person does this by themselves.
  • worik 5y ago
    And there is the sexist assumption that there must be a bloke some place doing the actual work.
    • pwinnski 5y ago
      There is not, though. No native speaker of English, which the newspaper of record in Houston, Texas, might be forgiven for assuming make up its primary readership, would ever assume that anything described as a "one-man show" must have a woman hidden away doing all of the behind-the-scenes work. The idiom means "the work of a single person," and that's it. Nothing else.
      • selimthegrim 5y ago
        This is the Chronicle of Higher Education, not the Houston Chronicle
        • pwinnski 5y ago
          Doh! Thanks, I missed that.