Many women report microaggressive experiences at the workplace. Microaggressions are:
- Brief and commonplace verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities
- Often unintentional and unconscious
- Often voiced by well-intentioned individuals who may be unaware of the negative connotations and the potentially harmful impact .
- Communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults.
- Stressful, demeaning, isolating