American pink-collar jobs are jobs that women usually do, often in offices and for little money.
Most women returning to work after raising children, head for pink-collar jobs in sales and service.
pink-collar
Of or in the service industry, which most typically employs women. Used before a noun. There is nothing wrong with women finding work in a pink-collar profession. The problem is in expecting women—and only women—to work in those types of jobs.