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
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Content: yet race and class remained as impediments to voting for some women. At the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, large numbers of single women in the United States traveled to large cities such as New York where they found work in factories and sweatshops, working for low pay operating sewing machines, sorting feathers, rolling tobacco, and other similar menial tasks. In these factories, workers frequently breathed dangerous fumes and worked with flammable materials. In order for factories to save money, women were required to clean and adjust the machines while they were running, which resulted in accidents where women lost their fingers or hands. Many women who worked in the factories earned meager wages for working long hours in unsafe conditions and as a result lived in poverty. 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.