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University of Connecticut: Value of So-Called 'Token' Woman
August 06, 2019
STORRS, Connecticut, Aug. 6 [TNSsociologyresearch] -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news:

Women who break into traditional male bastions--engineering teams, construction crews, tech startups, trading rooms, corporate boards, combat units--sometimes get tagged with the pejorative "token," suggesting that their inclusion had more to do with appearances than aptitude.

But what happens when a woman's ideas are actually heard and enacted b . . .

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