Talk:Pink-collar

Frankly, I doubt the truth of the statement about women in 1950s "usually" wearing bright colors. Whites and prints were probably more common than pink, but the association of pink with femininity is longstanding. -- Jmabel 07:50, Jun 12, 2004 (UTC)

Actually -- see pink. Unless it and the article it links to are horribly inaccurate (which I would be surprised to learn), the 1950s is about when that particular shift took hold. --Aponar Kestrel (talk) 02:52, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)

I'd also like to see some documentation on the many other terms that have been added to the article. I can't say I remember hearing any of them, and I think they may be a hoax. -- Jmabel 18:14, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

It's been over a week. No one has responded. I've cut the material. Here it is:

Besides pink-collar, there are many other relatively unheard of worker terms, such as;

Gray-collar workers: Skilled technicians; employees whose job descriptions combine some white- and some blue-collar duties
Black-collar workers: Media/creative industries, designers, creatives, marketeers
Green-collar workers: Environmentalists
Gold-collar workers: Professionals or those with in-demand skills; employees over 55
Scarlet-collar workers: Female phone sex operators
Dog-collar workers: Priests
Open-collar workers: People who work at home
Frayed-collar workers: Workers having trouble making ends meet; the working poor
Steel-collar workers: Robots

"Relatively unheard of", indeed. -- Jmabel 02:23, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Taken from here, apparently. WordSpy also has one citation for scarlet-collar (probably a non-notable coinage -- not reused since 2000, as far as I can tell), two for open-collar (1988 and 2001, so that's a maybe, but I can't find any later citations offhand), and three for dog-collar (but the two for priests are jokes, and the third refers to prostitutes; I didn't bother following up on that one). --Aponar Kestrel (talk) 02:52, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)

Merge[edit]

Our analogous articles are White-collar worker and Blue-collar worker, so probably the proposed merged article (this and Pink collar) belongs at Pink-collar worker. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:46, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]