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A 2015 The New York Times study found that about 30 percent of married women keep their maiden names or add their husband’s name to their own—a big uptick since the 1980s and the 1970s when ...
Colloquially, Koreans consider the name of an individual as a singular entity, and changing the family name syllable would make the name sound strange with the other syllables of the given name. Nowadays, women still keep their names after marriage. Children can have either parent's surname, but it is customary to use the father's surname.
Meanwhile, 14% said they kept their own last name, and 5% hyphenated with their husband’s last name, the data showed. But the numbers indicate age and education played a role in the decision-making.
Some couples keep their own last names but give their children hyphenated or combined surnames. [ 70 ] In 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW"), which declared in effect that women and men, and specifically wife and husband, shall have the same rights to choose ...
Deriving women's names from German and other foreign names is often problematic since foreign names do not suit Czech language rules, although most commonly -ová is simply added (Schmidtová; umlauts are often, but not always, dropped, e.g. Müllerová), or the German name is respelled with Czech spelling (Šmitová).
“Calling men in power by their last name and women in power by their first name is just natural to me, and I don’t know why, but it changes today.” A day later, Lowe changed course again.
The claim in verse 4 that "the nature of men is fickle" is an inversion of a common theme in love poetry: almost always it is women who are so condemned. [34] The poem then addresses the fickleness of fortune; another common trope. [35] This provides a link to the final lines of the poem, which address the instability of love. [33]
This explicit shushing is a common thread throughout the Grimms' take on folklore; spells of silence are cast on women more than they are on men, and the characters most valued by male suitors are those who speak infrequently, or don't speak at all. On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked.