Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto: Re-post:Humanitarians: missionaries, misfits, and mercenary part 2

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

I just finally posted this but it keeps popping up as July 2010 - ....

http://screamsfromthepinkcollarghetto.blogspot.com/2010/07/humanitarians-aka-mercenaries.html

What is a Pink-Collar Ghetto?

Pink Collar Ghetto describes women stuck in certain jobs, mostly low-paying and usually because of their sex. “Pink Collar” denotes historically female jobs like maids, secretaries, waitresses, and nurses. "Ghetto" is where marginalized people are forced to live.

I chose this title for my blog from a book I started to write when I was 22 and working in South Carolina as a bartender (barmaid according to my mother) and a receptionist/ temp. As a feminist, I was worried that I would never break out of the pink-collar ghetto. I read Barbara Kingsolver's book "The Bean Trees" and it inspired me to leave SC and go back to school.

Now I am a feminist humanitarian working on gender-based violence in humanitarian settings. It's been a long way from that pink collar ghetto in South Carolina but I never forget my roots.

Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Re-post:Humanitarians: missionaries, misfits, and mercenary part 2

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