Despite Sumption's claim that the bar is "meritocratic", men who are white, upper and middle class, and heterosexual have always enjoyed a privileged status in the profession – and continue to do so.
White upper class men are invariably eager to peddle the universal myth of meritocracy, particularly when they have benefited from a privileged status in the profession – and continue to do so.
From early concerns about improving their numbers and status in the profession, feminist architects and architecture scholars expanded the knowledge of women's involvement in the built environment, and challenged the boundaries of the discipline.
Indeed, Penn's Black Law Students Association hosts an annual conference that recognizes Alexander's pioneering status in the legal profession.
I don't say that because I want to protect any special status in the medical profession, I just think it takes a really long time to acquire the skills and knowledge to do that.
Occupational status in the teaching profession is generally related to the degree of selection involved in obtaining the teaching post and to the amount of training necessary to qualify for it.
In addition to being more often female, they tended to have a relatively better sociodemographic status in terms of profession and education, and they were slightly more often married (in addition to being unmarried) rather than divorced.
These included increased service demands, easier international migration, staff shortages, decline in the image and status of the profession, difficulties in attracting good recruits, an ageing workforce, and generally low staff morale (22, 24).
As the first wave of the "failing schools narrative" took shape with the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983, numerous reports and proposals were released that focused upon "professionalizing" the field of teaching, conjuring a future where the teacher workforce more closely resembled higher status professions in career trajectory and in clinical preparation.
The quality of child care is perceived to suffer from the low status of this profession in Dutch society with concomitant low wages (Mahon 2002).
The impressions that he retained from this visit were to inspire his paintings and his Discourses for the rest of his life, for he felt that it was by allying painting with scholarship that he could best achieve his ambition of raising the status of his profession back in England.
