pink-collar
(adjective)
Of or pertaining to employees in predominately female service industries.
Examples of pink-collar in the following topics:
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Inequalities of Work
- This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
- A "pink-collar worker" is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher, or secretary.
- The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
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Job Discrimination
- This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
- A pink-collar worker is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher or secretary.
- The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
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Gender
- An example of how women are disproportionately represented in low status jobs is the high concentration of women in low wage pink-collar jobs, such as secretary, waitress, and nanny.
- Women tend to be concentrated in less prestigious and lower paying occupations than men, particularly those that are traditionally considered women's jobs or pink-collar jobs.
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Social and Psychological Differences
- Women tend to be concentrated in less prestigious and lower paying occupations that are traditionally considered women's jobs (also referred to as pink collar jobs).
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White-Collar Crime
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- White-collar crime, is similar to corporate crime, because white-collar employees are more likely to commit fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cyber crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery .
- The term "white-collar crime" was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, who defined it as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" in a speech entitled "The White Collar Criminal" delivered to the American Sociological Society.
- Instead, white-collar criminals are opportunists, who learn to take advantage of their circumstances to accumulate financial gain.
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Industrial Work
- In common parlance, these people are often referred to as blue-collar workers.
- Often, blue-collar workers physically build or maintain something .
- The term "blue collar" refers to the type of clothing often worn by industrial workers.
- Some blue-collar workers have uniforms embroidered with either the business' name or the individual's name.
- This clip from CNN shows the development of a new type of blue-collar worker in South Carolina.
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Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System
- For instance someone committing a white collar crime is most likely from the higher classes and is less likely to be reported or punish.
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- Indeed, white-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
- Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
- Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
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Two Spices for the Business Kitchen
- Daniel Pink is one such author.
- I'll deal here with two such sections and with the tools in them which Pink believes can add vitality to any business.
- Here's a summary of some of Pink's contentions about design:
- Pink's book, incidentally, is subtitled "From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. "
- The second topic about which Pink presented some worthwhile new information is laughter.
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Clavicle
- The clavicle or collar bone is a long, curved bone on the upper portion of the shoulder that connects with the scapula and the sternum.
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Secondary Market Organizations
- ., over-the-counter trading in stock is carried out by market makers that make markets in OTCBB and Pink Sheets securities using inter-dealer quotation services such as Pink Quote (operated by Pink OTC Markets) and the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).