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.

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.

In the 1960s, Black psychiatrist Dr. Chester Pierce first coined the term “micro-aggression” as a way to describe “the small, continuous bombardments” of automatic offenses levied by White people upon ...

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Men underestimate how often women experience microaggressions in clinic and hospital settings, according to a study published online in Academic Medicine. Study participants viewed videos depicting ...

In new research, women at medical schools reported that microaggressions were common in their workplaces. Their male colleagues did not. By VJ Periyakoil, M.D. “Is this seat taken?” I heard a student ...