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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 ...
Women changing their last name when they get married is a strong tradition — but with a difficult past, experts say. New data shows where the trends are and where they may be headed.
“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.
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.
Some couples keep their own last names but give their children hyphenated or combined surnames. [ 73 ] 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 ...
Foreigners whose last name contains diacritics or non-English letters (e.g. Muñoz, Gößmann) may experience problems, since their names in their passports and in other documents are spelled differently (e.g., the German name Gößmann may be alternatively spelled Goessmann or Gossmann), so people not familiar with the foreign orthography may ...
For more on why we use first names for women and last names for men, TODAY.com spoke to two experts who explained why political strategy and gender bias play a role when referencing candidates.
Women, however, do not change their family names upon marriage and continue to use their birth family names instead of their husband's family names. However, women have traditionally, and some still choose to use the old Spanish custom of adjoining " de " and her husband's surname to her own name.