User:Pinkcollarink/Pink Collar Network

Pink Collar Network (noun) or Pink Collar Networking (verb) refers to business relationships between female CEOs that embrace traditionally female activities. Pink Collar Networkers take a holistic approach to business development and best practices, combining their roles as women, mothers, wives and more to ..... Rather than playing golf, for example, Pink Collar Networkers might discuss a business proposition over a shopping trip.

The term "pink collar" was originally coined in the mid-20th century to describe (1) industries or jobs considered appropriate for women, and/or (2) the influx of women into the workforce during and after World War II, and to larger extent, during the 1970s.

Beginning in 2008 and continuing, this redefinition has garnered attention and discussion from the scholarly community as well as the mainstream media. http://www.womensconference.org/the-womens-conference-2009/video/womans-nation