Experiencing English 2 Culture salon RRE Blue, white, pink and gold-collar Workers Once there was a real distinction in clothing between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers out of which the figurative sense of manual versus clerical staff evolved. Recently the term pink- collar worker has been invented to describe the female equivalent of the (assumed male) blue-collar worker, which is particularly applied to women who assemble electronic equipment and run back-office data-entry systems(the term may have originated in the title of a book by Louise Kapp Howe in 1977) Unit 2 Job and CareerExperiencing English 2 Unit 2 Job and Career Culture Salon Blue, white, pink and gold-collar Workers Once there was a real distinction in clothing between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers out of which the figurative sense of manual versus clerical staff evolved. Recently the term pink￾collar worker has been invented to describe the female equivalent of the (assumed male) blue-collar worker, which is particularly applied to women who assemble electronic equipment and run back-office data-entry systems (the term may have originated in the title of a book by Louise Kapp Howe in 1977)