The phrase "be regarded as equal" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to be thought of or considered to be the same in value, worth, or importance. Example: In the workplace, all employees should be regarded as equal regardless of their gender, race, or background.
I wonder whether the training and skill-building and job-search components of the original 1990's welfare reform dream would now be regarded as equal successes, had they been undertaken, too.
He never abandoned classical music, but he insisted that his jazz and classical performing be regarded as equal aspects of his musical personality, with composition often bridging the two.
Songs like "I Knew" also reflected the politics that the creators wanted for the musical: that being gay was a normal state that should be regarded as equal to heterosexuality in every way, including adoption.
Mr Grigoriou says the level of training means their qualifications will be regarded as equal to those of their British-trained colleagues.
A distribution of material resources across persons can be regarded as equal when no one would prefer to have any one else's bundle.
In this agreement among (liberal) peoples, each political society is to be regarded as equal, with equal rights of participation in this agreement; they each have the same number of representatives, no matter the size of their population.
In June Putin publicly condemned the "Soviet" (i.e., federal) model for the union, pointing out that, because the Belarusian economy was only 3% the size of Russia's, the two sides could hardly be regarded as equals.
Overall, the debate over which is more important, intellectual or emotional intelligence, is rendered moot as both should be regarded as equals, complementing instead of undermining each other.
British captives were regarded as equal, not subhumans like the Slavs.
Until people with a learning disability are regarded as equal citizens, the lives of "thousands of vulnerable and unprotected Robins out there", as her sister says, remain at risk.
Energy, in a Northern context, is seen as gender-neutral; women and men are regarded as equal in their uses of and views about energy, hence policies accurately reflect the needs and wishes of the population.
