Why don’t more men take their wives’ last names?
11/22/22
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from The Washington Post,
11/22/22:
Even among couples who share progressive gender politics, it’s rare for men to give up their surname
when he was in his 20s, Mike, a game developer who lives in Portland, Maine, found out that a couple he knew had combined parts of their surnames into a new one they could share. Then a friend announced he would be taking his fiancee’s last name when they wed. Mike started thinking past the cultural default options, and when he got engaged to his now-wife, Sara, he floated to her the option of taking her last name.
sk why it is that women have historically changed their names when they marry, Princeton historian Tera Hunter said, and you’ll see why most men don’t.
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