Title: Pink-collar worker - Wikipedia
Headings: Pink-collar worker
Pink-collar worker
Contents
Etymology
Occupations
Architecture
Education
Healthcare
Administration
Entertainment
Fashion
Media
Personal care and service
Sport
Background (United States)
Invention of the typewriter
World War I and II
The 20th Century Female Working World (United States)
Pay
Education
Pink ghetto
Pink or Velvet Ghetto in the field of Public Relations
Male integration
Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
See also
References
Bibliography
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Content: Throughout the 20th century, women such as Emily Balch, Jane Addams, and Lillian Wald were advocates for evolving the roles of women in America. These women created settlement houses and launched missions in overcrowded squalid immigrant neighborhoods to offer social services to women and children. In addition, women gradually became more involved with church activities and came to take on more leadership roles in various religious societies. The women who joined these societies worked with their members, some of whom were full-time teachers, nurses, missionaries, and social workers to accomplish their leadership tasks. The Association for the Sociology of Religion was the first to elect a woman president in 1938. Invention of the typewriter
Typically, clerk positions were filled by young men who used the position as an apprenticeship and opportunity to learn basic office functions before moving on to management positions. In the 1860s and 1870s, widespread use of the typewriter made women appear better suited for clerk positions. With their smaller fingers, women were perceived to be better able to operate the new machines. By 1885, new methods of note-taking and the expanding scope of businesses led office-clerk positions to be in high demand. Having a secretary became