tokenism in English
noun
1
the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce.
Simply electing a few women to assume key political positions is mere tokenism , and should fool no one.
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1. 21 Within this paradigm, the two main criticisms levelled at mainstream Hollywood films are tokenism and homophobia.