Everyone's A Masked Beauty - Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson

Everyone’s A Masked Beauty

With masks becoming the new normal, will we see the reinventing of the dynamics of human interaction, of the obliteration of class and looks divides, or will we simply find new ways of human segregation?

The face is now masked, depriving us of clues to who people are. The mask will efface to a great degree the significance of looks. Physical beauty will be camouflaged. Our facial uniqueness will be concealed under the sameness of masks.

A more recent finding is that attractive women run the risk of suffering penalties at workplace. Stefanie K Johnson, of the University of Colorado Boulder, pointed out in a blog, based on a research study she and three others undertook, that attractive women may not be assigned jobs deemed masculine, or could get perceived as femmes fatales and, therefore, considered untrustworthy, or face retaliation on the presumption that their careers have flourished because they are show-stoppers.

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About the Author: DrStefanieKJohnson

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.