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Pink-collar

//pɪŋk ˈkɒlə// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women wordnet

Etymology

From 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.

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