A pink-collar employee.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.    From Dictionary.com. 

These often are blue-collar or pink-collar workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reich Kamarck And Dear Briefing On Osha Reinvention] Reference

No one here is talking about the pink-collar workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Questions] Reference

Then, as now, blue-collar work paid a great deal better than pink-collar jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Schneiderman.] Reference

Where do the so-called pink-collar jobs fit into this, or the blue-collar jobs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magazine Lists Best Companies For Working Mothers] Reference

And they had darn little to say about the oppression and indignity of pink-collar work in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legalization of Prostitution in Austrailia] Reference

Instead, they need at least an associate's degree to even get interviewed within most pink-collar fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turns out girls are good at math. Who knew? - Feministing] Reference

Their other options were pink-collar jobs with long or inflexible hours, low pay, and bad working conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlaw Johns, Not Prostitutes] Reference

Women now outnumber men at all levels of degree seekers yet remain clustered in lower paying “pink-collar” professions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does a Woman’s Nation Change Anything? « AAUW Dialog] Reference

The Old Boy Network, which plays as large a part in publishing as it does in many other white-collar/pink-collar businesses, has triumphed again.    From Wordnik.com.  [on writing by stephen king] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cristen Conger: A Bartender's Guide to the Gender Wage Gap] Reference

Yes, in my classes on the sociology of gender we spend time talking about pink-collar jobs, discrimination against working mothers and the media's sexualization of young girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine Whelan: Stirring Up The Feminine Mystique For A New Generation] Reference

The same art of self-presentation was important for the many women entering the growing "pink-collar" workforce at the turn of the century, but looking presentable could be expensive.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

Esp. those who aren't interested in teaching high school--and esp. if they come from blue- or pink-collar families, where they may not have been exposed to a wider range of possible careers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

Workers in pink-collar jobs (those traditionally held by women, such as secretary, sales clerk and food server), in the service industry, or in small establishments tend to receive the worst benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Important to You?] Reference

Only the other night, when I explained to her that even though I could work a white- or pink-collar day job and have the capacity for success in them if I put my mind to it, they pretty much eat at my soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Things to Understand About My Intensity] Reference

A larger question is whether we should have policies that promote women moving into higher-paying careers (and whether those careers would remain higher-paying if women moved into them, as opposed to becoming pink-collar ghettos).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Domestic Sphere] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Reich: Sarah Palin's Presidential Strategy, and the Economy She Depends On] Reference

This means fast-starters acquire the markers of adulthood on the fast track, but that they risk getting get trapped between the rock and a hard place of a blue - and pink-collar labor sector where down-sizing, stagnating wages, shrinking worker's benefits, and nonexistent job mobility eat away at their chances of getting ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Kefalas: Failure to Launch or Launching Too Soon?] Reference

He said women in industry and management accounted for as many as 68% of all service workers, more than half of all clerical and sales workers, and a significant workers, more than half of all clerical and sales workers, and a significant majority of the so-called pink-collar jobs - nursing, occupational and rado therapy, social work, hairdressing, teaching, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In 1870, women made up 14 percent of the paid workforce, a figure that grew to 20 percent by 1910 and 22 percent by 1930.39 Higher education became more of a possibility among the middle class and female graduates found work in pink-collar jobs, giving them more disposable income to spend on ready-made clothing, dress codes to meet, and less time to spend sewing.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

Sunshine Cleaning seems very knowing about pink-collar work.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

While trimming my untamable hair, Nita would connect me to the pink-collar world of her Northeast Seattle beauty salon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crosscut] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joel Kotkin] Reference

Women choose to go into "pink-collar" careers like sales and PR that pay less than more technical options (and I'm a little guilty myself since I'm on the marketing side).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

(1968Barnhart's Second, p. 358.), a label for those who repair television sets, washing machines, and similar equipment; pink-collar (1977), a label for those in jobs that traditionally have been held by women.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing American] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs] Reference

Which was that typical pink-collar jobs bank teller, secretary, waitress, the only jobs these women had available to them, didn’t pay very well at all, and the working conditions were often worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legalization of Prostitution in Austrailia] Reference

I don't mind feeling obligated. "deliberately crafted to focus on propping up pink-collar government employment at the expense of private-sector blue-collar jobs, where unemployment is concentrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpenMarket.org] Reference