Definition of "pink-collar" []

• Of or relating to a class of jobs, such as typist or telephone operator, once traditionally filled by women. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Female office personnel are "pink-collar workers.""
• "Nurses, teachers and women in other pink-collar fields are safe."
• "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)."