International Women’s Day
Leaders of one of Europe’s largest dental recruitment specialists, mydentist careers, claim that the landscape of dentistry has changed dramatically in recent years, with women becoming increasingly influential across the industry.
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8), the organisation has highlighted its latest employee data, which showed that as of April, 2014, around 60 per cent of the firm’s employees were female.
Putting this into context, data released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) in August last year revealed that for 2014/15, 47 per cent of NHS dentists were female. This is clearly a significant increase from 39 per cent in 2006/07.
In 2014, the British Dental Journal predicted that by the year 2020, more than half of dentists in the UK would be female - mydentist careers is already ahead of this curve.
Where have we come from?
According to MDDUS (The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland), the 1897 England Census recorded only 116 female dentists, although none held a Licence in Dental Surgery (LDS).
Two years later, Lillian Lindsay (née Murray) achieved her LDS qualification, making her the first qualified female dentist in the UK. However, this was in Scotland, and it wasn’t until 1912 that Lily Fanny Pain was the first woman to achieve and qualify with an LDS Eng.
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