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Through in-depth, qualitative interviews of 39 women leaders in STEM, we identify common gender microaggressions they experience, and explore how these microaggressions affect their leadership experience and outcomes in the workplace. Our findings highlight five types of gender microaggressions women...
June 26, 2020Bisexual women report the highest rates of both, and are most likely to hear sexist comments about their gender and have sexually explicit comments directed at them. To read the article, see “How the LGBTQ+ community fares in t...
What I’m posing here is that many of the microaggressions directed to women in the workplace come not from the fact that they are women but from the fact that they have less power in the company. The same can be said for all the other non-majority groups. It’s always been easier...
FollowingHealio’s Women in Allergy’s prior story onthe topic of managing difficult patient interactions, we spoke with Fisher and Joseph about what microaggressions are and the consequences they can have for health care workplaces, as well as strategies for specifically respo...
It’s important to note that micro-aggressions can be directed at any marginalized group, including but not limited to people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and women. Micro-aggressions can occur in any setting, including but not limited to, the workplace, school, ...
Mentoring can be another important step towardfostering understanding and decreasing bias, saysKyle Emich, PhD, an assistant professor of management at the University of Delaware who has coauthored research on how women are perceived in the workplace. But, to be most effective, the mentor and pr...
or talked over, for example. This figure jumps, however, depending on the different subsets within the LGBTQ+ community, say partnerMonne Williamsand coauthors. For instance, LGBTQ+ women and transgender employees were more likely than gay men to report experiencing...
Elizabeth Ames, senior vice president of marketing, alliances, and programs for the Anita Borg Institute, observes that one of the most common microaggressions in the workplace against women and underrepresented minorities is just having people speak over them in conversations and meetings. “Another...