pink-collar

(adjective)

Of or pertaining to employees in predominately female service industries.

Related Terms

  • public sector
  • private sector

Examples of pink-collar in the following topics:

  • Inequalities of Work

    • This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
    • A "pink-collar worker" is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher, or secretary.
    • The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
  • Job Discrimination

    • This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
    • A pink-collar worker is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher or secretary.
    • The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
  • Gender

    • An example of how women are disproportionately represented in low status jobs is the high concentration of women in low wage pink-collar jobs, such as secretary, waitress, and nanny.
    • Women tend to be concentrated in less prestigious and lower paying occupations than men, particularly those that are traditionally considered women's jobs or pink-collar jobs.
  • Social and Psychological Differences

    • Women tend to be concentrated in less prestigious and lower paying occupations that are traditionally considered women's jobs (also referred to as pink collar jobs).
  • White-Collar Crime

    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • White-collar crime, is similar to corporate crime, because white-collar employees are more likely to commit fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cyber crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery .
    • The term "white-collar crime" was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, who defined it as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" in a speech entitled "The White Collar Criminal" delivered to the American Sociological Society.
    • Instead, white-collar criminals are opportunists, who learn to take advantage of their circumstances to accumulate financial gain.
  • Industrial Work

    • In common parlance, these people are often referred to as blue-collar workers.
    • Often, blue-collar workers physically build or maintain something .
    • The term "blue collar" refers to the type of clothing often worn by industrial workers.
    • Some blue-collar workers have uniforms embroidered with either the business' name or the individual's name.
    • This clip from CNN shows the development of a new type of blue-collar worker in South Carolina.
  • Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System

    • For instance someone committing a white collar crime is most likely from the higher classes and is less likely to be reported or punish.
    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • Indeed, white-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
    • Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
    • Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
  • Two Spices for the Business Kitchen

    • Daniel Pink is one such author.
    • I'll deal here with two such sections and with the tools in them which Pink believes can add vitality to any business.
    • Here's a summary of some of Pink's contentions about design:
    • Pink's book, incidentally, is subtitled "From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. "
    • The second topic about which Pink presented some worthwhile new information is laughter.
  • Clavicle

    • The clavicle or collar bone is a long, curved bone on the upper portion of the shoulder that connects with the scapula and the sternum.
  • Secondary Market Organizations

    • ., over-the-counter trading in stock is carried out by market makers that make markets in OTCBB and Pink Sheets securities using inter-dealer quotation services such as Pink Quote (operated by Pink OTC Markets) and the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
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