Shall we aim for 50-50? The limitations of annual report named numbers in representing the gender gap closure

Assuming boards of directors generally have (and so could be ‘visualised’) as a 50-50 gender representation of board members, the linguistic question should then be: ‘what does that mean/signify/simulate/dissimulate?’ In this paper, we argue for the absolute necessity of comprehending these statements as articulations in and of a different mode of statement-making: and therefore as an integral component ‘methodologically’ and ‘linguistically’ of any serious attempt to explain what current non-50/50 gender representations in workforces or boardrooms both signify and conceal.