tokenism

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Women have not even reached the level of tokenism that blacks are reaching.
婦女甚至還沒有達到黑人所達到的象征性的平等水平。
E. g. : Despite pronouncements about being committed to ending apartheid, many U. S. companies engage merely in tokenism.
許多美國公司盡琯公開表示願意終止種族隔離政策，但衹是裝點門麪而已。
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Nobody likes quotas: they smack of tokenism and unfair competition.
沒人喜歡定量：定量看上去有些做表麪文章和不公平競爭的意思。

Instead, we now have intentional paralysis by analysis and economic tokenism.
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The club could stubbornly resist admitting women and get criticized for being sexist, or it could admit them, and get (rightly) taunted for being decades behind the times and accused of tokenism.
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Including the appointment of Hilda Solis as Labour Secretary he has even managed to pick two blacks, three Hispanics and two Asian-Americans—and five of his cabinet are women—without any accusations of tokenism.
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actions that are the result of pretending to give advantage to those groups in society who are often treated unfairly, in order to give the appearance of fairness

If you refer to an action as tokenism, you disapprove of it because you think it is just done for effect, in order to show a particular intention or to impress a particular type of person.