With the legislation of the Gender Equality in Employment Act and the adoption of Gender Mainstreaming approaches, most male-dominated public sectors in Taiwan no longer set limits on the number of women in the recruitment process. As a result, an increasing number of women have entered these masculine occupational fields, and brought about challenges to the existing system and culture in the organizations. Using the cases of the coast guard and fire fighting sectors as examples, this research aims to explore and deliberate the situations of token women in these masculine fields, so as to develop policy recommendations. Drawing on Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s conceptual framework of tokenism as well as the supplementary notions made by other theorists, this paper explores three obstacles to women’s adjustment and performance in the occupational fields, namely the stereotypical gendered division of labor, male-centered occupational arrangement and establishment, and the pressure imposed on tokens due to excessive attention. Furthermore, the authors analyze the organizational, cultural and societal factors that contextualize and sustain tokenism. Finally, the paper concludes with several policy recommendations, both institutional and structural, to combat the above-mentioned token effects.