Why Professions Need To Be Inclusive To Remain Legitimate

Professions are in the discrimination business; it’s by design

Find out why inclusion is necessary for professions and why the professions that get this wrong are going to be devastated

Here are some key messages from this episode

• The special contract between Professions and Society
• Why Inclusive Professions matter to your personally
• The urgent need for Inclusion in Professions and much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode

Professions are in the discrimination business

“Professions are in the discrimination business. They are allowed to discriminate about who is in their profession in a way that is different to the rest of the labour market.. why?”

Professions have a special agreement with society 

“if you’ve completed the professionalisation project, you should be able to establish that what you do is so important to society that what you do deserves special treatment”

 Professions need to be inclusive to be legitimate in the 21^st Century

“This means that professions need to be inclusive in order to meet their commitment to society in exchange for the privileges that we allow them to have”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

Royal College of Anaesthetists

British Medical Association

Milburn Report: Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions

The System of the Professions

Social closure in dynamic markets: the incomplete professional project in accountancy

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