NEW YORK— VM’s 2012 Influential Women in Optical celebrates stories of achievement as women continue to play pivotal and evolving roles in the vision care and optical arenas. Once again, VM honors women who have made significant contributions in the following categories: Executive Suite, Mentors, Rising Stars and Innovators. As VM marks the 10th year of this Special Report, a new roster of women have earned a spot on VM’s 2012 list as they join a distinguished group of more than 400 Influential Women whom we’ve profiled since 2003.

Passion and dedication are two words that immediately come to mind when describing this influential group of honorees, both past and present. To commemorate the feature’s 10th anniversary, Vision Monday and VisionWeb have teamed up to take a graphical snapshot in this fact-filled infographic tracing women’s impact on the industry.

Go online to read the entire Influential Women package including a year-by-year roll call of honorees as well as an alphabetical list of all VM’s women from 2003 to 2012.