Here are five learnings from science that should help us understand the nature and impact of microaggressions at work that will improve our ability to deal with them. From a functional or ...

The research is clear: Diverse companies are likely to outperform less diverse peers on profitability. Yet progress is slow, and gaps are widening between companies that embrace diversity, equity, and ...

As a woman and a person of color, I've been on the receiving end of many microaggressions. A Harvard Business Review article said that avoiding committing microaggressions is not enough. "It's not ...

Debra Yoo was once at an office party where colleagues shared their baby photos. She didn't participate, but her fellow workers thought that another Asian colleague's baby photo was Yoo. "It just ...

As a trans person, I knew it would be difficult to work a corporate job. I decided to freelance. But when I wanted to buy a house, I needed to get a salaried job, so I joined a company full time. I ...

Racism comes in many forms — and that includes the insidious microaggression. Microassaults are the more obvious and deliberate discriminatory behaviors, such a cashier purposely skipping over a Black ...

Author discusses her experiences with microaggressions in the workplace and calls for sustained efforts to enact change. Merriam-Webster defines a microaggression as a comment or action that subtly ...

The term “microaggression” was originally coined by African American psychiatrist Chester Pierce (1970) over fifty years ago, in response to daily indignities he experienced from White people, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Microaggressions are negative slights based on someone’s marginalized status in society. Leaving ...

As a Latina, Belén Preciado never saw anything wrong with her eyebrows. The 15-year-old described them as “very bushy and thick eyebrows, you know.” “I’m like, very hairy from my parents,” said ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 2020 McKinsey survey showed 84% of respondents have experienced workplace microaggressions, with additional ...

From Hiers v. Board of Regents, released today by Judge Sean Jordan (N.D. Tex.): Writing for himself and Justice Brandeis nearly a century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes extolled what he viewed as ...