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Tokenism

Tokenism meaning

A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially to hire a minimal number of ethnically diverse or disadvantaged people.

Example sentences (18)

Politicians have turned the citizens into thugs, touts, canon fodders, hoodlums, ballot box snatchers, gun wielding enforcers, in an election process where the citizens ought to be the king and not the servant due to tokenism and dirty money.

LGBTQ+ actors, entertainers, activists and artists – who often experienced discrimination and tokenism on mainstream media – appeared on these series to publicize and discuss their work.

Tokenism say the person that thinks minorities spooning off the government is a noble thing.

As to its underline observation on the use of “tokenism” – one contends that it is a fair description that can withstand any accusation of race, particularly in the direction to which such an accusation is made.

Dunnett described the requirement for a captive breeding program as “tokenism” and said the fish should be protected in its natural environment.

Russia’s demonstrated only ‘tokenism support’ in China-India War 1962 and Russia’s much much-vaunted support during India-Pakistan War 1971 was support limited only to liberation of East Pakistan by Indian Army and creation of Bangladesh.

A series of emails obtained by the reveals a representative of one school warned the disabled students would be "mocked" and said the inclusion of a special race was "tokenism".

Because, the current fight is over more than the tokenism of the prime ministerial nomination, which everybody in this society recognize is as prestigious and fulfilling as septic tank cleaning.

I’m the last person to support tokenism.

In this backdrop, the BJD has shown a way out of chronic tokenism over women’s political participation — if passing a bill to reserve seats for women is too much hard work in these polarised times, each party must push more women candidates into the fray.

Feedback on “'Irish sports women are leading the way and there's no longer this dominant sense of tokenism'”.

Freedom Democrats rejected the two seats as tokenism, holding a sit-in on the convention floor in Atlantic City to highlight the lack of Black political representation.

Still, Asada, Mars and other companies engaging in the current tokenism can console themselves with the thought that whilst CAP delivered agro-deserts at least it led to lower cost inputs and thus higher profits.

The opposition’s complaints about Zec’s tokenism were echoed by EU and local observers.

Furthermore, it was suggested that an element of " tokenism " and stereotyping surrounded many of these minority characters.

Janice D. Yoder (1991): Rethinking Tokenism: Looking beyond Numbers.

Lynn Zimmer (1988): Tokenism and Women in the Workplace: The Limits of Gender-Neutral Theory.

Women who enter predominantly male work groups can experience the negative consequences of tokenism : performance pressures, social isolation, and role encapsulation.