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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pink-collaradjective

    of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women

    "a pink-collar employee"

Wiktionary

  1. pink-collaradjective

    Of or pertaining to employees in predominately female service industries.

  2. Etymology: By analogy with various constructions in -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.

Wikipedia

  1. pink-collar

    A pink-collar worker is someone working in the care-oriented career field or in fields historically considered to be women's work. This may include jobs in the beauty industry, nursing, social work, teaching, secretarial work, upholstery, or child care. While these jobs may also be filled by men, they have historically been female-dominated (a tendency that continues today, though to a somewhat lesser extent) and may pay significantly less than white-collar or blue-collar jobs.Women's work, and defining women to particular fields within the workplace, began to rise in the 1940s concurrently with World War II.

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  1. pink-collar

    A pink-collar worker refers to a person employed in a job that is traditionally considered to be women's work, particularly low-paying service work such as teaching, nursing, or secretarial work. This term arose from the commonly associated color for girls (pink) and blue-collar workers, a term for manual laborers usually associated with men.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pink-collar in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pink-collar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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