Pink-collar worker

Pink-collar worker indicates part of the female labor. The term can result in “employee with pink collar”.

The trades pink-collar are unroll in an environment relatively clean and calm, they are traditionally trades reserved to the women (according to the criteria of the beginning of the XXe century). This term was formed by analogy with the Blue collar (blue collar - trades of the manual type) and White collar (white collar - administrative liberal professions or trades).

Pink-collar is used to distinguish these trades and its workers of the white collar because the function of these women requires less competences and do not give access to a pay or a prestige equal to the white colar .

In the majority of industries and trades, as in the majority of the cultures, the female labor is generally less better paid and limited in its advance appropriatenesses. What was true during the Industrial revolution when the women were engaged in the factories of blue collar ; in the hospitals, where them role was limited before to that of nurses and in the educational sector where the statute of professor involved a certain prestige. This diagram continued when the women started to be recruited of number in the offices at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Several factors enter in account the increase in the number of the pink-collar worker . Initially and it is most important, the women of the industrialized countries started to tend towards financial independence with respect to the men. Then, often rejected world of the blue and white collar for lack of physical force or of the dangers inherent in the trades, much of women found the means of employing their domestic gifts in their work. However in spite of the increase in the rate of active women, the married women remained the second source of revenue of the hearth of the Fifties until the Seventies. The best health of the industrialized countries means than more money is used in services exempted by the pink-collar worker . Indeed, the number of positions of power in the sector increased quickly and more and more women entered the working life.

During the twentieth century, with tops and bottoms and differences between the countries, one can note that there is less and less bulk-heading between the trades men - women. One of the great victories of the second wave of Féminisme was the destruction of this bulk-heading, for example in 1972, the NewYork Times changes its system of classifieds of recruitment. There are no more two categories for the trades reserved to the men and for the women but one which gathers both. More and more, the women see themselves making it possible to reach the trades of the white collar . It is for this period that the wages of the pink-collar were in increase as well as the prospects for advance. Of course, certain work remains still regarded as held to the women and is generally called Pink-collar work .

Trades indicated under name Pink-collar :

  • Waitress
  • Florist
  • Nurse or medical Assistant
  • Secretary
  • Receptionist
  • particular Professor
  • Guard of children or Maternal assistant
  • Cleaning lady
  • Controlling
  • Trades of the beauty
  • Other trades with weak competences of industry

See too

  • Office lady

  • Gold-collar worker
  • White-collar worker
  • Blue-collar worker

Category: work

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