high-powered profession
high-profile profession

'We're women in what could be considered high-powered professions.

"There are many people who have high-powered professions who have manic depression," Dr. Atkins said.

And it is changing, as women (and an increasing number of men) who left high-powered professions to stay home with their children are looking to re-enter the workplace.

Women, after all, often like to be called petite, though women in law, business and other high-powered professions who are below the female average height of 5-foot-5 claim that their diminutive stature makes it hard for them to be taken seriously.

Despite his high-profile profession, Wilkerson shunned the light of personal publicity.

But the new TV season has brought a turning, however slight, away from the high-profile professions that have been especially prominent in the '90's in favor of a more workaday world.

But for a small band of self-trained individuals, like Phillip Bloch and Jessica Paster, it has become a lucrative and high-profile profession (or at least justification to comment as a style expert during awards shows).