The phrase "a much needed role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a position or function that is essential or highly beneficial in a particular context.
Example: "The new project manager will fill a much needed role in our team, ensuring that all deadlines are met."
Alternatives: "an essential role" or "a crucial role".
This will see more women moving up the ladder which, in turn, will provide the more much needed role models, mentors, sponsors and inspiration for women following below.
Florian: For scientist couples, senior academics may not only fail to represent that much needed role model but they might even be unsupportive towards those couples that do want to combine a family and two careers.
It is the responsibility of the leaders of faith to play their much needed role in ending the hell that millions of women live in, from which only very few are lucky enough to escape as the three Cleveland women did.
A strong argument for Tony Blair's candidacy is that he would enable Britain to play a much needed proactive role in the European Union on both internal and foreign affairs.
It has certainly generated a much needed debate about the role of aid and the state of development in Africa.
Massive and continuing state and local violations of accountability and poor achievement levels for the neediest children resulted in passage during the George W. Bush Administration of the No Child Left Behind Act with bipartisan support including Senator Ted Kennedy and Congressman George Miller — which attempted to build in a much needed stronger federal accountability role.
The emerging role of the ED in severe sepsis and septic shock is a much needed and evolving part of the landscape of critical care medicine [ 18].
For many, this takes the form of mentoring, or giving to a cause – in my spare time I volunteer for an educational charity that I am extremely passionate about – Diversity Role Models – a much needed initiative aimed at helping schools eradicate homophobic and transphobic bullying and provide a safe environment for their LGBT students.
Importantly, early on in Latin America Bunge played the role of a much needed exemplar, a leading thinker who in the 1960s became a "possibility proof" that philosophers working in the sub-continent could, despite the often bizarre difficulties academics face, stand up and join the philosophical conversation at the highest levels.
I know Liam Maxwell, Mike Bracken, and the teams they are assembling, could walk into senior roles to provide a much needed shake-up to almost any FTSE 100 (given how few are already on this journey) and make a huge difference.
