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
disapproval 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. Is his promotion evidence of the minorities' advance, or mere tokenism?. actions that are intended to make people think that an organization deals fairly with people or problems, when in fact it does not