A pink-collar worker works in a relatively clean, safe environment, in a job that is considered traditionally female (these traditions generally harking back to the first half of the twentieth century). In Education, a teacher is one who helps Students or pupils often in a School, as well as in a Family, religious or The term is formed by analogy to blue collar and white collar. White-collar worker refers to a salaried professional or an educated Worker who performs semi-professional office administrative and sales coordination tasks as opposed to
The term originally arose to distinguish these jobs from white collar jobs, and to distinguish women in these roles from other white-collar workers, because their work did not require as much professional training, nor did it carry equal pay or prestige.
In most industries and careers, and in most cultures, women in the workforce have traditionally been given lesser pay and limited career opportunities. This was true when women entered the blue-collar factory workforce during the Industrial Revolution; in hospitals, where they were traditionally limited to the role of nurses; and in the teaching profession where the teaching of children frequently held little prestige. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the This pattern was repeated when significant numbers of women began to enter the office workforce in the early twentieth century.
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Several factors played into the rise of the pink collar sector. Most importantly, women in industrialized nations began to actively seek their own income rather than relying on men to support them. Income, refers to consumption opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame which is generally expressed in monetary terms Often kept out of traditional blue and white collar jobs by physical requirements and prejudice, many women found ways to take their domestic skills into the world of paid work. The word prejudice refers to prejudgment making a decision before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case or event But despite the expansion in employment that women had, married women were still the secondary earners in their household during the 1950s to the 1970s.
Pink collar positions have spread rapidly as more and more women enter the workforce. Greater wealth in industrialized nations also means that more money is spent on the services provided by pink collar positions.
During the twentieth century, with some ups and downs and with different degrees of change in different countries, there began to be less separation between men's and women's jobs. One of the great victories of second-wave feminism was the breakdown of much of the remaining formal institutionalization of these gender roles in the workplace. Second-wave feminism refers to a period of Feminist activity which began during the 1960s and lasted through the late 1970s A gender role is defined as a set of perceived behavioural norms associated particularly with Males or Females in a given social group or system For example, in 1972, The New York Times stopped running separate "Help Wanted - Male" and "Help Wanted - Female" advertisements. Increasingly, women have opportunities in traditionally male white-collar jobs; also, during this period, pay for pink-collar jobs has generally improved, as have the prospects of moving up the promotion ladder. Still, certain jobs remain overwhelmingly female, and are still generally considered "pink collar".
Pink collar occupations include:
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