tokenism


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tokenism/ˈtəʊkənɪzəm/
noun the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do something, especially by recruiting a small number of people from under-represented groups in order to give the appearance of equality within a workforce.
– derivatives
tokenistic adjective.
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