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The Lucy Stone League is a women's rights organization founded in 1921. [1] Its motto is "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost." [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.
Lucy Stone's refusal to take her husband's name, as an assertion of her own rights, was controversial, then, and it is largely what she is remembered for, today. Women who continue to use their maiden name, after marriage, are still occasionally known as "Lucy Stoners," in the United States. [5]
Mina Murray (returning to her maiden name after having divorced her husband) is one of the lead characters of Alan Moore's and Kevin O'Neill's comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999-2019). She is a bisexual suffragist and leader of the titular team, and is involved in a romantic relationship with Allan Quatermain.
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 ...
Olivia married Ethan Plath in 2018, one year before the Plath family’s TLC series, Welcome to Plathville, premiered. Their marriage played out on the show before they split in 2023. “My last ...
A recent study found that 35% of unmarried millennial and Gen X women planned to keep their surname in a professional context after marriage, and 29% of Gen Z women said the same.
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.
8 out of 10 women change their name after marriage—they might not realize the impact it has on their careers, work relationships, and job prospects