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[quote=Anonymous]Nursing and teaching are THE pink collar jobs.  Like, that is where the concept precisely comes from. Not florist.

In any event, my guess to the OP's question is that HR takes zero skill set. And I also want to preface this by saying that I think this field is primarily women - not just AA women.  These days you would generally need a college degree -- but AA degree probably suffices, and there are lots of folks in their 40s who are promotes from a time when you didn't need the degree at all to sneak into HR.  The only other big corporate/government job category that's zero skill like HR is marketing/PR/public affairs.  Not everyone is necessarily good at these jobs, but you can show up without an identifiable skill set and nonetheless have a good career.  Thing about all the other admin jobs in a big office setting - accounting (requires technical skills), IT (requires technical skills), even office services require heavy lifting skills.  I think women in generally are less inclined as 18 year old first-year college students to want to "commit" to a technical skill set. And if they do, they want it to be a "soft" skill. That's just anecdotal.  But think about how most women choose general arts programs in college, marketing, business, etc. And very few women, relatively speaking, choose at age 18 to go into engineering, science, IT, or even the majors in the business school that are harder sciences.

And if AA women make up a sizeable percentage of HR people in DC, I'm guessing it's because there is a fairly big AA middle class here - in the sense of people who may have a community college degree. And HR is the kind of field that you can sneak into with a  community college degree. And most community college students are minorities.  It just seems like a good step up kind of job for people who may not have access to a high level college, as it's a big step up from being a secretary.    [/quote]

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