The Encyclopedia Britannica describes Hakka women as "energetic laborers." Early in this century, an American missionary named Smith stated in a monograph on The Hakka of China that "70 % of the glory belonging to the Hakka people can be ascribed to the Hakka women."
大英百科全書在介紹客家婦女時，便稱她們為「精力充沛的勞動者」；本世紀初，一個美國傳教士史密斯甚至在一篇＜中國客家＞文章中指出，「客家民族的光輝，七十％應歸功於客家婦女。」