词汇 | pink-collar |
释义 | pink-collar adjective mainly USuk /ˌpɪŋkˈkɒl.ər/ us /ˌpɪŋkˈkɑː.lɚ/ A pink-collar job is one that is traditionally done by a woman: (表示传统上妇女从事的工作)粉领的 Until recently secretarial work and nursing were very much pink-collar professions.以往秘书工作和护理工作基本上都属粉领职业,到近来情况才有所改变。 Compare blue-collar white-collar See also collarnoun Types of employment admin administrative administrative assistant administratively at the coalfaceidiom job-share job-sharing jobbing jobless joblessness professionality qualified recertify redundancy redundant well qualified WFH white-collar who's whoidiom wilderness yearsidiom pink-collar | Business Englishpink-collar adjective[ before noun ] HR USukus relating to low-paying jobs that are traditionally done by women: pink-collar job/workerHaving to balance a career and a family often leads women to choose pink-collar jobs. Compare blue-collar white-collar Examples of pink-collarpink-collar In many lines of work, be they blue-collar, pink-collar, or white-collar, there is little sense that one is contributing to one's community. In the aggregate, managers and other professionals are more valuable than blue - and pink-collar workers. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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