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Reply to "Can't wait to change my surname, but notice many women keeping theirs, is there a reason for this trend?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I got married in the 90s and kept my name. The only issue has ever been that we can’t get like welcome mats or cheese boards that say “The Smiths” on it. Not a big deal. Sometimes the kids friends call me by my husbands ast name but that’s okay too. My husband has a unique last name and we work in the same field so I didn’t want everyone immediately thinking of me as his wife. But there’s lots of reasons to keep it. Most women I know did not change their names—it’s probably 60/40 among highly educated women (women with graduate degrees) is my guess. Some use both names but that seems to me more clunky. I had a friend who had trouble getting on an airline because she her professional name doesn’t match her legal name and a client had bought the ticket. So you do need to worry about stuff like that once you get creative. My friends with hyphenated names seem to have lots of trouble. [/quote]
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