pink-collar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]pink + collar. By analogy with various constructions ending in the word collar, especially blue-collar, and from the traditional conception of pink as a feminine color (with blue its masculine counterpart), a conception perhaps magnified in this case by the sometime popularity of pink blouses among women in the service industry.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɪŋk ˈkɒlə/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɪŋk ˌkɑlɚ/, /ˌkɒ-/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: pink-col‧lar
Adjective
[edit]pink-collar (comparative more pink-collar, superlative most pink-collar)
- Of or pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries.
- 1977, Glenn Siebert, Employment Service Potential: Indicators of Labor Market Activity, Sacramento, Calif.: Employment Research Section, California Employment Development Department, →OCLC, page 115:
- Black men have tended to congregate in laborers' jobs and certain service occupations, young workers in trade and such service enterprises as gas stations (to a lesser extent also in laborers' jobs), and women in the so-called "pink collar" occupations in trade, the services, and clerical work in all industrial sectors.
- 1992, Emrika Padus, The Complete Guide to Your Emotions and Your Health: Hundreds of Proven Techniques to Harmonize Mind & Body for Happy, Healthy Living, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, →ISBN, page 210:
- Good examples of employees under hidden stress are the nation's pink-collar workers. This group includes secretaries, clerks, data processors, telephone operators, and others.
- 2003, Peggy Fielding, Confessing for Money, Denton, Tx.: AWOC.COM, →ISBN, page 7:
- These days, girls and women of all ages are still reading them, particularly the blue collar or pink collar workers or wives of blue collar workers.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries
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Further reading
[edit]Pink-collar worker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia