Most influential women in Optics?

**Hayde** · 10-24-2014, 09:41 AM

http://www.visionmonday.com/latest-n...optical-2-2-1/

Read fast & talk faster to send a nomination before the day is out! (Some of the class acts here on Optiboard could surely get my vote.)

**drk** · 10-24-2014, 11:22 AM

I vote: Judy Canty.

**Judy Canty** · 10-24-2014, 04:55 PM

Thanks drk. I was afforded that honor in 2006 and I don't think I can make it twice.

**CCGREEN** · 10-31-2014, 10:49 AM

Oh my. Im just going to sit here say nothing and see where this goes. lol

**Steve Machol** · 10-31-2014, 10:55 AM

Gratuitous sexist comments removed.

**Hayde** · 10-31-2014, 10:57 AM

Meanwhile...I wonder who the contendors might be? Where are the leading ladies working in the industry?

**drk** · 10-31-2014, 11:49 AM

You didn't appreciate irony, did you?

It wasn't gratuitous, was it?

Never mind....

**Steve Machol** · 10-31-2014, 01:54 PM

FYI, Judy Canty did not report this.

**WFruit** · 10-31-2014, 02:09 PM

I'm not sure I'd say Judy is "most influential." One of the most respected certainly (and someone who recognizes and can take a joke...).

I don't know if it's a sad commentary on our industry, society at large, or just my memory, that I see numerous articles by and about women in the trade magazines on everything from best business practices to advanced optics, but I couldn't tell you any of their names....

On the other hand, that could be seen as a good sign regarding equality, that it doesn't matter the gender of the writer, but what is written.