WORD LIST
1. accountability
2. act as a sounding board
3. address the special needs and problems women face
4. affect the business community
5. anticipate emerging social issues
6. appoint to corporate boards
7. be loosely drawn
8. be socialized
9. be subject to penalty
10. board responsibility
11. broad perspective
12. career development
13. CEO experience
14. chairman
15. chief executive experience
16. chief executive officer
17. communicate expectations
18. corporate board
19. corporate responsibility
20. derive from legislation
21. employ women in the general work force
22. encourage all the strengths
23. enhance special contribution
24. enhance the morale and the productivity
25. ensure the financial well-being
26. entail a shift from a primary concern with management to a primary concern with policy
27. enter the boardroom
28. establish ground rules
29. exhaust the supply
30. expedite the process of assimilation
31. expertise
32. fulfill expectations
33. functional position
34. general work force
35. high achievers
36. improve the community
37. incentives to appoint women to boards
38. intelligence
39. key constituencies
40. major corporations
41. make a contribution
42. make transition from staff to board
43. nominating committee
44. nonprofit circles
45. outside the business world
46. perform a function
47. permeable corporate community
48. perspective
49. pool of qualified candidates
50. preferences
51. qualify them for consideration as directors
52. raise awareness
53. raise issues
54. range of experience
55. ratio of female to male directors
56. recruit women directors
57. respect of the peers
58. role model
59. seek solutions to the problem
60. seek special concessions
61. serve on board
62. sine qua non
63. specifications for directorship
64. stockholders
65. transition in perspective
66. two-career family
67. women of high achievement
68. yield insight, perspective, and experience
Exercise 1. In the article «Invisible» Resource: Women for Boards» find the English equivalents to