A microaggression is a behavior or communication (spoken or unspoken) that feeds into stereotypes and stigmatizations of gender, race, orientation, religion or other marginalized groups.

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 ...

You can’t be singing Rihanna’s “Umbrella” if you happen to be a white fella – fella. That’s what kids learned during a lesson on “privilege” and “microaggressions” in a human relations theory class at ...

Universities should also focus on hiring more diverse teaching staff, who can serve as role models, using their experiences ...

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 derived from ...

Microaggressions are seemingly innocuous verbal, behavioural or environmental slights against members of minority communities. The term microaggressions was coined by American psychiatrist Chester ...

If you’ve ever wished someone a “Merry Christmas” or said “God bless you” when someone sneezes, you’ve committed an act of “Islamomisic microaggressions,” according to college librarians at a ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. Microaggressions can be defined as “the everyday verbal, ...

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 ...