pink-collar

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And yet wannabe pink-collar kingpins like Here Media CEO Paul Colichman keep trying.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a class of jobs, such as typist or telephone operator, once traditionally filled by women.

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  • And yet wannabe pink-collar kingpins like Here Media CEO Paul Colichman keep trying. —  Gawker: Valleywag
  • But many of these women were not in white-collar or 'pink-collar' jobs; they were worn-looking women who worked in suitcase factories at grueling jobs, or who waited tables on their feet all day and had varicose veins. —  Vanishing American
  • That's not the kind of appearances I'm talking about, but the other kind, the kind which points out that there has never been a female vice president in this country, that very few faces in the positions of power look like the faces women see in their mirrors early in the morning while harriedly combing their hair right before taking the kids to daycare or school before dashing off to that dead-end pink-collar job. —  feminist blogs
  • Sunshine Cleaning seems very knowing about pink-collar work.
  • Many commute over the 4,100-foot Cajon Pass to blue - and pink-collar jobs as far as Los Angeles, more than an hour and a half away. —  Joel Kotkin
 

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