Narrowing the Leadership Gap: Using Communication Strategies to Mitigate Microaggressions

• In Event: Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap

Short Description

Communication strategies can be a catalyst that shifts focus away from the recipients of microaggressions and toward those who engage in microaggressive acts. This process begins by bringing awareness of the unintentional approaches to communication, continues by understanding communication strategies that can mitigate microaggressions, and culminates in shifting focus away from women and to the aggressor.

Participants

• Kelly McKenzie, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

• Tammy J. Halstead, Franklin & Marshall College