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PRONUNCIATION OF PINK-COLLAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PINK-COLLAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pink-Collar is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PINK-COLLAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pink-collar

Pink-collar worker

In the United States, a pink-collar worker performs what is sometimes regarded as women's work, such as jobs in the service industry. In contrast, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs skilled or unskilled manual labor. A third type of work is a white-collar worker, who typically performs work in an office environment and may involve sitting at a computer or desk. Many occupations blend blue, white and/or pink industry categorizations. A waitress writes down the food order of diners...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PINK-COLLAR

pink elephants
Pink Floyd
pink gin
pink lady
pink noise
pink poplar
pink pound
pink salmon
pink slime
pink slip
pink-footed goose
pink-slip
pink-slipped
pinken
pinker
Pinkerton
pinkeye
pinkie
pinkies
pinkiness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PINK-COLLAR

blue-collar
caterpillar
collar
dog collar
dollar
eurodollar
flea collar
green-collar
half-a-dollar
half-dollar
head collar
hot under the collar
Mandarin collar
Peter Pan collar
petrodollar
sand dollar
shawl collar
sollar
top dollar
white-collar
wing collar

Synonyms and antonyms of pink-collar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pink-collar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PINK-COLLAR

Find out the translation of pink-collar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pink-collar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pink-collar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粉领
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cuello rosa
570 millions of speakers

English

pink-collar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुलाबी कॉलर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوردي ذوي الياقات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

розово- воротник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de colarinho rosa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোলাপী বাবু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rose - col
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kolar merah jambu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pink- Kragen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピンクカラーの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

핑크 칼라
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pink-collar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu hồng cổ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இளஞ்சிவப்பு-காலர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुलाबी-कॉलर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pembe yakalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rosa - collare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pink- collar
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рожево - комір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roz - guler
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ροζ - κολάρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pienk - kraag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pink- krage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pink- collar
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pink-collar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PINK-COLLAR»

The term «pink-collar» is regularly used and occupies the 95.611 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PINK-COLLAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pink-collar

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PINK-COLLAR»

Discover the use of pink-collar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pink-collar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Breaking Out of the Pink-collar Ghetto: Policy Solutions for ...
Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low-paying, low-mobility, pink collar jobs.
Sharon H. Mastracci, 2004
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High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, ...
This is a penetrating demonstration of the genuine relevance of anthropology to the modern world. It also shows us in what ways change and persistence are subtly interwoven, in a world that is not quite so new as others tell us.
Carla Freeman, 2000
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The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
The words "pink collar ghetto" entered the feminist vocabulary in 1977 with the publication of Louise Kapp Howe's Pink Collar \\orkers, which vividly portrayed the lives of women in traditionally "female" jobs like beautician, waitress, sales clerk, ...
Wilma P. Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, 1999
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Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New ...
Social scientists call this “occupational segregation by sex”—in popular jargon, a “pink collar ghetto”—but they pay less attention to its sources and consequences than we as women should pay. Because women work in pink collar ghettos, ...
Robin Morgan, 2007
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The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom
Some writers even call these clerical occupations the “pink-collar ghetto” because they absorbed so much of the rapidly-expanding female labor force. Clerical work became the hallmark particularly of Lucky Few women. A full one- third of all ...
Elwood Carlson, 2008
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Terms for Females: Tomboy, Pink-collar Worker, Wife, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikipedia, 2011
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Transnational Migrant Brazilian Women in Pink Collar Jobs in ...
These works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Lucilia V. Tremura, 2012
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Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, ...
Table 36, in which Hispanic and non-Hispanic workers are divided into a category of white- and pink-collar positions and a second category of industrial, manufacturing, and service jobs, indicates the occupational disparity between ...
Julia Kirk Blackwelder, 1998
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International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, ...
1999), and even pink- collar clerical workers (e.g. Olorunsola 2000). Although pink-collar workers are not likely the first to come to mind when one thinks of job rotation, they share some of the same problems of repetition and monotony as ...
Waldemar Karwowski, 2006
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Office Work: Peter Principle, Pink-Collar Worker, Virtual ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books, LLC, Source: Wikipedia, 2010

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PINK-COLLAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pink-collar is used in the context of the following news items.
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Summer budget 2015: Conservative welfare cuts will hit women the …
Recent reforms to the social security system include issues around childcare, occupational segregation in "pink-collar" jobs such as nursing, ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
2
South Africa: Do We Have the Humanity to Take Care of Each Other …
and it's not just blue and pink-collar jobs that are risk. White-collar workers are very much on the frontlines of this confrontation with the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
3
20 jobs that are dominated by women
While more and more men are donning the pink-collar and facing the social stigma associated with "women's work," numbers tell us that we ... «Business Insider, Feb 15»
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20 'pink-collar' jobs dominated by women
While more and more men are donning the pink-collar and facing the social stigma associated with “women's work,” numbers tell us that we ... «Business Insider Australia, Feb 15»

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