Any employer or manager who is serious about diversity, equity and inclusion should make understanding microaggressions a priority. The term “microaggressions” was first coined in the 70s by Dr.

If you’re currently reading this on your mobile phone at work, I sincerely hope you’re alone. Otherwise, good luck at your upcoming disciplinary meeting; human resources will see you now, you ...

Battling cancer is already a mentally taxing time, but it is worse for those in the LGBTQ+ community, who will likely experience microaggressions while receiving cancer care and treatment. There are ...

Microaggressions often lead to negative impacts on workplace culture and productivity, but perpetrators and targets can work to repair their relationship — and potentially even strengthen it, ...

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 ...

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.

Microaggressions are harmful. An increasing number of research studies document not only the widespread occurrence of racial microaggressions but also that these experiences are distressing 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 ...

Let’s retire the idea that burnout is merely overwork. Let’s broaden our understanding to include blagony: the strain of ...

A few months into a construction job, Rob Cintron said he was working on a house with his crew chief and a younger co-worker, who were both white. The crew chief would giggle after repeating an ...

This column originally appeared in The Cohort, Poynter’s newsletter that centers conversations about gender in media. Subscribe here to join the community. You know the feeling: You’re in a meeting — ...

“You don’t behave enough like staff,” I was told derisively by the tenured professor who was then my supervisor. Despite my Ph.D., my years of experience at various levels of higher education, and my ...