Why Professions Need To Be Inclusive To Remain Legitimate

29/09/2020 13 min
Why Professions Need To Be Inclusive To Remain Legitimate

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Episode Synopsis

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 21st 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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