Pink-collar worker is a term designating a type of worker, contrasted with blue-collar worker and white-collar worker. A pink-collar worker performs what was traditionally women's work, typically in the service industry.
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“A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)