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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.

Using Tokenism

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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.
  • In the example corpus, tokenism often appears in combinations such as: tokenism and, of tokenism, as tokenism.

Context around Tokenism

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Tokenism

  • In this selection, "tokenism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, support, chronic, current, say, support and holding stand out and add context to how "tokenism" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1991 rethinking tokenism looking beyond and consequences of tokenism performance pressures. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "tokenism" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with tokenism

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

I’m the last person to support tokenism. (8 words)

Janice D. Yoder (1991): Rethinking Tokenism: Looking beyond Numbers. (9 words)

Tokenism say the person that thinks minorities spooning off the government is a noble thing. (15 words)

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. (46 words)

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. (39 words)

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. (39 words)

Example sentences (17)

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.

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.

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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.

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Common combinations with tokenism

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "tokenism" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "tokenism" from authentic English texts.
What does "tokenism" mean?
Tokenism means: 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.
How many example sentences with "tokenism" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "tokenism", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.