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Tokenism In Business

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This part of reading mainly talks about the several kinds of situation women would confront with in a corporation. Basically women are the tokens and are facing various difficulties. The key word is definitely to be the tokenism. It’s the practice of making a perfunctory attitude or gesture toward minority groups, in this case, the women in a corporation. The appearance of tokenism is totally showing discrimination on women in corporations. Even though women spent many years tried to gain their right to get into workforce, they still being treated differently nearly everywhere at work place. Men just can’t get rid of the old fashion concept and unconsciously showed their attitude within gestures and languages. They regard themselves as the

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