Because shrines require people who continue to work after retirement to wear a dark-green or blue hakama (skirt-like trousers) or of a color specified by the shrine, many of them distinguish female employees depending on their jobs; they treat the women who offer religious services as miko and those who do desk work as general workers.
定年以降に神社に勤務する場合は、神社指定の制服や松葉色・紺色などの袴を履くなどして服装で区分され、また職掌の上でも神事に奉仕する女性職員を巫女、それ以外の事務作業などを行うのが一般女性職員と区分される事が多い。