As 2018 get's kicked off, it's been so much fun getting to meet more young female optometrists making waves in our profession through Eyedolatry.  The stories of these women are so inspiring, especially since when I was a student optometrist I had no young female doctors I could look up to as a role model in navigating my new career.  Times, they are...

If it's not obvious by the fact my "down-time" is spent here, blogging about my profession, I really love being an optometrist.  I would make that decision again even if I time-traveled back to my undergrad days (and please, don't let that recurring nightmare of facing tests and papers all over again ever become reality). But there are plenty of times in this...

When Rachel Simpson and Kate Hamm entered the Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Project Foresight Scholarship competition, they weren’t sure that their idea was exactly what the company had in mind.  The topic? “What does the future of Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club optometry look like?” The company was asking for submissions on how they can become a better workplace to attract millennials and grow for the...

Great news! In four years when the class of 2020 graduates from optometry schools around the country, they will be 70% female for the first time in history.  But just as more women enter the profession, they are faced with some pretty challenging hurdles to overcome in healthcare.  How are they going to start their own practices in the face of mounting student...

Why do men make so much more than women in our profession, even in our very first jobs where experience is on a level playing field?  Negotiating the initial salary offer is the most important thing female optometrists can do to close the gender pay gulf (gap is kind of an understatement after Review of Optometry reported a 68% gender pay difference across full-time...

Welcome to our first #WomenInFocus article!  I wanted to start things off at the very beginning -- starting salary is one of the very first numbers you have to evaluate when beginning your career, and one of the very first times that being female really comes into play in your optometric career as a disadvantage. Review of Optometry's 2015 income survey showed that the...

Eyedolaty celebrates its 5th birthday next month, and it's been amazing how much has changed in the world of optometry in the short time since I began blogging.  We've grown from the days of a free blogspot domain posting pictures of conjunctival cysts and bad NBA glasses fashion, to a trusted optometric resource where thousands of readers around the world turn to find...