Connie Lauerman

Are you mystified by the workings of computer programs? For women who attempt to study computer science, feelings of inadequacy may be exacerbated in classes that tend to be dominated...

Poet Anne Winters picked up two prizes this year for her most recent book of poetry, "The Displaced of Capital" (University of Chicago Press). This month, the collection of poems--about...

Since Roe vs. Wade turned 30 nearly three years ago, the battle over abortion has intensified. Anti-abortion advocates are working to chip away at the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling...

While many abortion-rights advocates have speculated about what changes on the U.S. Supreme Court might mean, anti-abortion rights advocates have been waging successful campaigns on the state level to limit...

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. recently said it is cutting individual life insurance rates for women age 40 and older who have been treated for early-stage breast cancer, bringing the...

Are romance novels your dirty little secret? You're not alone. Romance fiction claimed 48.8 percent of all U.S. paperback sales in 2003, according to new market research by the Romance...

More than 600 Illinois social workers gathered in Chicago last week for a three-day conference sponsored by the Chicago Sister Cities International Program and the Illinois chapter of the National...

Chicago poets Michelle Taransky and Manda Aufochs Gillespie warmed up the crowd last week during Powell's North Reading Series, which put female poets front and center at the Powell's Bookstore...

Help is on the way for the thousands of Gulf Coast women and children expected to pour into Chicago after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The Chicago Foundation for Women's...

MORNING Getting errands out of the way on Saturday morning is always a good policy, but once in a while it's fun to augment the routine supermarket trip with some...