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When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
Some 83% of women who have a college degree or less changed their names after marriage, compared to 79% of those with a bachelor's degree—and at postgraduate degree level, this falls further to 68%.
[2] It was the first group to fight for women to be allowed to keep their maiden name after marriage—and to use it legally. [3] It was among the first feminist groups to arise from the suffrage movement and gained attention for seeking and preserving women's own-name rights, such as the particular ones which follow in this article.
After her marriage, from the summer of 1855 to the summer of 1857, Stone continued a full lecturing, petitioning, and organizing schedule. In January 1856, Stone was a defense witness in the case of Margaret Garner , a slave of the Gaines family in Kentucky, who had escaped with her husband and children across the frozen Ohio River into the ...
"Nobody ever thought about the algorithm impact before—but it's only going to become more of an issue."
For example, women in academics struggle to collate their work between their maiden and married names—and they risk losing critical funding, opportunities, or promotion as a result.
Double-barrelled names are more common in the UK and often are made up of the two names upon a marriage, although many have specific reasons for being used - a relative of the woman may have left property to the couple on the condition that they add the surname, the women's family name may die out otherwise, his the woman's name may be rather ...
The working mom is an emblem of the 21st century. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris didn’t change her last name after marrying her husband Douglas Emhoff, and it's kind of a big deal.