While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession’s responsibilities.
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.
In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. . . I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.