pink-collar worker

A pink-collar worker performs what was traditionally women's work, typically in the service industry.

"White-collar and pink-collar workers are making their own jobs.

Pink-collar worker (1975) - Secretarial, administrative, or other clerical workers.

The phrase "pink-collar worker" refers, in the West, to persons working in fields or jobs conventionally regarded as "women's work."

They stipulate that the women chose low-paying jobs, clerical work, and to work in services (see also Pink-collar worker).

Pink-collar worker is a term designating a type of worker, contrasted with blue-collar worker and white-collar worker.

These are mostly blue- and pink-collar workers, some of whom struggle to stretch salaries in the teens and twenties to meet New York's high cost of living.

"Both blue-collar and pink-collar workers are under a lot of financial pressure today because living in a high-cost area such as Westchester often takes two incomes, and if one income stops, the problems begin."