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Anonymous
The article on women changing names after marriage is interesting. Some notable quotes: “It’s important to understand how people view marital name choices because those attitudes speak to gender attitudes in general…”
“Moreover, woman’s decision to take on her husband’s surname is far more than simply a name change, Shafer points out. If that were the case, she says, “why don’t we see even a sizeable minority of men changing their names to their wives’? We still see that it’s the vast majority of women doing it… Clearly, it’s a reflection of our cultural views, that women should put their families ahead of themselves: a view that we don’t have for men.”
“Most people accept that [women] can both work and be a good mom at the same time. That’s because the vast majority of women do it now. Maybe it takes a certain amount of women to do a certain act before people start to accept it.”
If more women simply kept their last names when they got married, Shafer adds, “people would see it as normalized.”
It’s amazing to me that there are so many people who think that if a woman does not change her name upon marriage, then she is “less committed” to the marriage, at least according to this study. Yet men keeping their names upon marriage does not necessarily reflect on their overall commitment to the union.
Ellen
I love annonymous’s comment above. We women need to think long and hard b/f changeing our name for our husband. That is so 1990’s! Nowadays we must think that we will proabably NOT stay forever with a schmoe after they have impregnated us, so if we like our names, we should NOT give them up for 10-15 years when we are married, b/c we will need to move on and how can we do that with the ex’s last name? Dad disagrees but he has NOT had to face this situeation.
When I was considering Marrying Sheketovits, it became a real issue. I did NOT want to lose my family name, Barshevsky, but at the same time he wanted me to “belong to him” if we got married. I was NOT that anxius, so said that mabye we could hyphenate our name, but that was a dumb idea b/c we fought over whether I should be Barshevsky-Sheketovits or Sheketovits-Barshevsky. We ultimately decided NOT to marry so I did NOT have to change ANYTHING, but everyone I know thought my hyphenated name would be RIDICULUS! And I agree! YAY!!!!