Importance of Gender Tokenism in the Workplace advance in their career (2000). ). In this scenario and many others, the employee's gender receives more attention than their actual ability to perform (Jackson et al., 1995). Token successful women in high-profile positions, like Hillary Clinton and Sandra Day O'Connor, are used to cover up this discrimination, encouraging women to look beyond numerical underrepresentation as a sign of discrimination (Ryan et al., 2012) and instead consider women who are not as successful as

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