10/13/2021 05:31:03 PMWhile women make up nearly half of the United States workforce, they account for only 27% of STEM workers, according to the Census Bureau. To help close the gender gap, University of Houston College of Education professors Allison Master and Weihua Fan have developed a study to boost girls’ interest and participation in computer science. They recently earned a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support their research.