A Study of Gender based Micro-Aggressions at Workplace

A Study of Gender based Micro-Aggressions at Workplace

Dr. Anju Kumar - Professr, HR and General Management, ISBR Business School, Bangalore, Nandini Soni - PGDM Student, ISBR Business School, Bangalore

ABSTRACT

Microaggressions are concealed behaviors in interactions at workplaces. They are observed to  happen on a day to day basis. These are hidden and are forms of discriminatory behaviors.  Targeted employees feel their energy zapped out and therefore are unable to perform to their  utmost. This affects workplace productivity and is unconscious in nature. Women face more  gender Microaggressions than men do. Examining gender discrimination in the workplace via  the lens of Microaggressions provides a unique opportunity. There is a need to assess a wide  spectrum of sexist experiences, from subtle to overt, expanding the scope of most previous  frameworks. Racist insults targeted at women resolutely pain the individual. This study  addresses the literature gap of lack of research on gender discrimination based on stereotyping  in the workplace leading to Microaggressions. Qualitative research methodology is used in this  paper.

KEYWORDS

Microaggressions, Gender Stereotyping, Discrimination