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 ...
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 ...
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.
Some common racial microaggressions that Asian Americans experience include people assuming they are foreigners and non-Asians explaining Asian culture to them. (Jennifer Lu / Los Angeles Times) "I ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
If one were to read much of the psychological literature on microaggressions uncritically, one would come away with the conclusion that they are a serious problem. If so, it is very hard to discern ...
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 ...
The Oregon Medical Board has introduced a new ethics rule that threatens to revoke the medical licenses of doctors who commit "microaggressions" in the workplace. Under the proposed law first ...