pink-collar

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• Female office personnel are "pink-collar workers. Donna Henes: Blessings of the Pink Moon
• The blue-collar sector posted a 173-percent increase in employment from 1992 to 1997, stronger than the growth in the pink-collar temping.
• Every packed lunch is one day fewer spent slaving in the pink-collar ghetto.
• Nurses, teachers and women in other pink-collar fields are safe. Having It All, Including Doubt
• In fact, the pink-collar wage gap is less than 5 percent for all of these sectors, except one: dining room and cafeteria attendants/bartender helpers. Cristen Conger: A Bartender's Guide to the Gender Wage Gap
• While the unemployment rate among college grads (most of whom are professionals or managers) is around 5 percent, the average unemployment rate for people with only a high school degree or less (blue-collar, pink-collar, clerical) is almost 20 percent. Robert Reich: Sarah Palin's Presidential Strategy, and the Economy She Depends On
• Temporary employment in pink-collar occupations grew by 151 percent between 1992 and 1997, a period in which the growth rate for temp employment as a whole was 110 percent.
• Secretarial or low-level administrative jobs are so overwhelmingly female that they have been termed pink-collar jobs.
• At the start of the 1980s, the pink-collar segment of the industry represented 39 percent of the temporary workforce, with white-collar placements accounting for an additional 26 percent.
• Banished from sales, she too was mired in a pink-collar ghetto and often refused basic necessities like restrooms.