English

Women working at a Wacoal lingerie factory in Thailand

Adjective

pink-collar ‎(comparative more pink-collar, superlative most pink-collar)

1. Of or pertaining to employees in predominately female service industries.
   • 1977, Glenn Siebert, Employment Service Potential: Indicators of Labor Market Activity, Sacramento, Calif.: Employment Research Section, California Employment Development Department, OCLC 4149729, 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 978-0-87596-144-6, 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 978-0-9707507-4-7, 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.

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