pink-collar
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- adjective
- /pɪŋkˈkɑːlər/
- Jargon
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trabajador de cuello rosa
- And as feminized pink-collar workers, both women and men, we had to take our "private," invisible, domesticated labor into the public sphere, performing "hard labor" under the universal signifier of the "hard bat."
- pink-collar workers
- pink-collar ghetto
Examples
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You don't need Ludwig Von Mises to know that a deindustrialized nation dominated by white-collar and pink-collar jobs cannot sustain the degree of building and inflation that was going on.
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She enjoys her pink-collar role as a secretary, helping to keep the office running smoothly.
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What are the chances that they will get to go away to college, live on a campus, and explore careers in finance, architecture, law, or anything other than traditional pink-collar work?
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They appear, in fact, to be the sort of glorified pink-collar employees who actually run the business world without getting the pay and perks one would expect.
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In my time there, the pink collar workers—the secretaries and clerks—unionized.
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At a time when the number of women faculty being hired and tenured is in decline at one of the largest state educational systems in the country, these posters signal the potent intersection of feminist social movements and the pink-collar sector of workers at the university.
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It includes the vast middle class of blue-collar, white-collar, and pink-collar workers—even the upper middle class.
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Women of color (including indigenous women), women living in poverty, mothers, disabled women (with a variety of disabilities, who can have input on different kinds of accessibility for internet content, physical gatherings, etc.), trans women, queer women, pink-collar workers.
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Many young women choose pink-collar jobs like teaching and nursing for their careers.
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The report highlighted the challenges faced by pink-collar workers in achieving equal pay with their peers.
Antonyms
How Manual
Surface Forms
Morphology
pink-collar = pink + collar (semi-transparent) = pink + collar
Formally a compound of 'pink' + 'collar' and understandable in structure, but the specific socio-occupational meaning (jobs associated with women) is a metaphorical extension that requires cultural knowledge and awareness of the 'colour-collar' pattern.
Etymology
The word pink-collar joins pink and collar, like blue-collar and white-collar, and it names kinds of work that have been done mostly by women. Think of pink as a color long linked to women's clothes, so pink-collar reminds you of jobs seen as 'women's work', such as nursing, teaching, or office clerical roles.