pink-collar

How To Use pink-collar In A Sentence

• a pink-collar employee
• Yes, in my classes on the sociology of gender we spend time talking about pink-collar jobs, discrimination against working mothers and the media's sexualization of young girls. Christine Whelan: Stirring Up The Feminine Mystique For A New Generation
• In addition, poor wages not only offset women's increased access to the job market, but occupational segregation, as a result of women's access, helped to lower the status of certain jobs and create pink-collar ghettos.
• Sexual harassment is still endemic and the pink-collar ghetto is still prevalent.
• Most tend to be nurses, teachers or hold clerical and other pink-collar jobs, while many are stressed to the hilt by family and work demands.
• Over the years, women have tried everything to succeed in business: fitting in; biding their time in order to rise in an organization; taking shelter in pink-collar ghettos.
• Until recently secretarial work and nursing were very much pink-collar professions.
• Freeman explored the interconnected ‘dialectics of globalization/localization, production/consumption, and gender/class’ through the everyday lives of pink-collar informatics operators in Barbados.
• Almost half the crowd was made up of overweight women in pairs, trios, or quartets, most wearing clothing and makeup that identified them as pink-collar workers.
• I believe that most feminist policies harm the very women they should be protecting - that is, the pink-collar worker.