Sentence examples for equal board representation from inspiring English sources

Both camps will also get equal board representation.

If seats on the board were indeed the deal buster, it might appear that Mr. Schacht was holding out for equal board representation because he wanted Lucent-appointed directors to have an equal role in running the company and holding its management accountable.

The argument is simple: yes, shareholders invest their capital in companies for profit, but workers invest their lives in companies for income, and without their working lives there would be no profit, so they have equal entitlement to board representation.

Anyone speaking out about equal pay, 50 50 board representation, or male-dominated industries will inevitably be met with the riposte that these situations exist because women are simply not as ambitious; not as fearless as men.

It is, instead, what Norway's new top-down consensus requires: "Norway has among the most ambitious equal opportunity legislation in the world that legally requires firms to reach a 40 percent women board representation by 2017".

The chief executives of both exchanges carefully, and repeatedly, described the deal as "a merger of equals" and emphasized that the resulting company would have headquarters in both London and Toronto with board representation from both countries.

Thermo Electron's chief executive, Marijn E. Dekkers, would run the combined company, these people said, though in some ways the deal was being structured as a merger of equals, with both companies getting equal representation on the combined company's board.

The Alcatel statement seemed aimed at allaying French fears that its merger with Lucent, which will have equal representation on the board of the combined company, could compromise French control over a strategic national asset.

But equal representation on the board of TNK-BP, a Russian oil firm, did not prevent a falling-out between its shareholders, AAR, a Russian consortium that included Alfa Group, and BP, a British oil firm.

"I think institutions really need to make a commitment to equal representation across the board, and that means a paradigm shift institutionally about how they value certain work," Rosa-Salas said.

Stephen Alambritis, commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, commented: "At the current rate of change it will take 73 years for women to achieve equal representation on the boards of FTSE 100 companies.