0 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 --
1 the fact of doing something only to show that you are following rules or doing what is expected or seen to be fair, and not because you really believe it is the right thing to do: --
Town and parish councils should also be given a greater true role in planning decisions, not tokenism.
It will be one of the worst cases of tokenism if it is made up of yes-men and women.
All of them are talking about the wonderful tokenism.
What seems to have been debated tonight is the provision of an in-house creche, which, in my view, would be mere feminist tokenism.
Like many of the renewable resources which it is claimed are needed to produce energy, this is to a large extent political tokenism.
One has to question the value of that sort of tokenism.
What has to be avoided is merely funding political correctness and tokenism.
Cook (2002: 516) describes consultation as:'a crucial, yet deeply problematic issue' dogged with criticisms of tokenism and unrepresentativeness.
