tokenism

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

Similar words

affirmative action racial spoils meritocratism positive action nomineeism tailism meritocracy cooperationism ethnocracy gatekeeping

Often followed by

and in is to of or that as was

Word family

tokenisms tokenistic