pink yuan
n.— «Last year, a study claimed that, by 2015, Chinese women would control $260 billion of the country’s purchasing power (there is even a name for it: the pink yuan).» —“Going Olympic” by Jessica Brinton Times (London, United Kingdom) Aug. 3, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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