Since the 1970s the number of women employed in the USA has increased to where in 2010women comprised 51 percent of all management, professional and related occupations,46 percent of those employed in life, physical, and social science occupations, 67 percentof psychologists, 60 percent of accountants, 53 percent of pharmacists, 32 percent oflawyers, 32 percent of physicians and surgeons, 25 percent of dentists, and 24 percent ofarchitects.Despite substantial gains in these professions women remain underrepresented inengineering constituting only 10 percent of full-time employed engineers and 7.7 percentof engineering managers at a time when demand for engineers continues to grow.