pink-collar

形容词 adj.
/pɪŋk ˈkɒlə/    /ˈpɪŋk ˌkɑlɚ/|/ˌkɒ-/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries.
    — Black men have tended to congregate in laborers' jobs and certain service occupations, young workers in trade and such service enterprises as gas stations (to a lesser extent also in laborers' jobs), and women in the so-called "pink collar" occupations in trade, the services, and clerical work in all industrial sectors.

词形变化

more pink-collar comparative most pink-collar superlative pink collar alternative

词源

From pink + collar.
By analogy with various constructions ending in the word collar, especially blue-collar, and from the traditional conception of pink as a feminine color (with blue its masculine counterpart), a conception perhaps magnified in this case by the sometime popularity of pink blouses among women in the service industry.
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