TOKENISM


Meaning of TOKENISM in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They worry that the job-sharing experiment may be tokenism rather than a real attempt at change in the way working mothers are treated.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A third problem with the numbers game is tokenism .

Even women who try to work as feminists in psychology suffer from the ambiguities of tokenism .

How, besides tokenism , do psychological and feminist concepts of the subject affect feminist efforts to correct gender imbalances among psychologists?

Partly, tokenism gave the appearance of equality without its reality.

Private industry, however, remained relatively immune to these decrees after the war, though tokenism flourished.

Symbolic gestures and tokenism are inadequate remedies.

The visit to Nyanga near Cape Town may have been tokenism , but at least it was a step in the right direction.

Within this paradigm, the two main criticisms levelled at mainstream Hollywood films are tokenism and homophobia.

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