[SamAdams76]

I'm not quite sure being a nurse is a low-paying profession. I have an aunt who is a nurse and she has a vacation home and is always driving around a new car. She does very well.

Also, pink is not necessarily a feminine color. I never understood where that notion came from.

[Olog-hai]

It isn’t. I already mentioned the Band 5 pay grade for graduate nurses going into the NHS, the range being $35,000–$46,000 (higher in London IIRC).

[Windflier]

pink is not necessarily a feminine color.

Well, I won't lie. I once had a pink dress shirt that I loved. I looked damn good in it, too, but that was when I was a teenager. I highly doubt I could get away with wearing a pink shirt today.

[Vanders9]

Its a relatively new phenomenae, this gender typing of colors. It dates from the mid 1920's - and originally it was pink for boys and blue for girls. Then all of a sudden, in the mid 1940's, probably at the instigation of some idiot fashion guru, the two swapped, and it became blue for boys and pink for girls. So just after the end of the war.

Nowadays blue is not neccesarily for boys, but pink remains very much for girls.