GOC highlights rise of women in profession

New equality and diversity data from the General Optical Council revealed that increasing numbers of women and practitioners of Asian ethnic origin are entering the optical professions.

This is the GOC's first equality and diversity report, with 12,157 out of 17,870 full registrants and 1,162 of 4,512 student registrants returning equality and diversity monitoring forms from last year's retention packs.

In detail, 66 per cent of student registrants who responded were female and 56 per cent of responses from all full GOC registrants were women. Twenty-three per cent of all full registrants were of Asian origin, while 49 per cent of all student registrants responding to the monitoring were of Asian origin.