An office lady, often abbreviated OL (Japanese: オーエル, romanized: Ōeru, pronounced [o̞ːe̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally pink-collar tasks such as secretarial or clerical work.
OL (= office lady) referred to pink collar clerical work, 事務職 (jimu shoku), which usually offered no/little opportunities for promotion. It had the impression of.