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Through a case history of the author's experiences as one of the first civilian faculty members at an United States military academy, tokenism under extreme circumstances and its effects on an individual are described. Hypotheses for future work in the area are proposed, and coping strategies are explored. Women's support groups, psychotherapists, social psychologists, sociologists, and policymakers are exhorted to be aware of tokenism and to work together to break the downward spiral of debilitating events that tokenism creates.
Janice D. Yoder (Tue,) studied this question.