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It's not as common in plenty of other cultures, so you'd better be aware if you like foreign women.
In the Jewish/Hebrew culture, we actually give different "surnames" to boys & girls in the same family - the boy will be *First/middle name* son of *Father's first name*, while the girl is *First/middle name* daughter of *Mother's first name*. My Hebrew name is Shulamit Tzivah and my mother's is Leah, so my full Hebrew name is Shulamit Tzivah bat Leah... whereas my brother is Yisrael Yakov ben Chana Kuppel (dad has a Yiddish name instead).
It was only around the 18th-19th century in Europe when we started adopting actual surnames, mostly by force or pressure as anti-Semitism was on the rise. I just read an interesting article about that, which explains how almost all Jewish surnames can be attributed to a 19th-century occupation, locale, mother/father's name, or personal characteristic. Mine implies we farmed a certain vegetable in Russia, lol.
Ah, here's the article to which I'm referring... interesting stuff! My name isn't on the list, but just about EVERY Jewish person's name I know is listed here.
Not just liberal women hyphenate or use both their husbands and fathers name. Women of elevated social class have always done this and women in the Spanish speaking world.
People are getting married later in life. I'm 26 and am not in a relationship heading for marriage. Even at 26, I have name recognition in my field due to giving presentations, papers, and extensive networking. I have nothing against changing my name in principle (though see very little reason why a woman should be expected to change her name to her husband's and not the other way around!), but it would do me a professional disservice to drop my maiden name.
Perhaps conservative women get married younger before they have had the chance to develop a professional identity?
What exactly is good about these "changes"...........no not too bad for me as me and my family are fine..........bad for the country though. I guess you just don't get it and never will.
I pity a person who is so thrown off by other people's choice in naming convention!
I have been married twice, and divorced twice, and changed my name both times. Now to get a drivers license I have to have both marriage licenses, both divorce decrees, and my birth certificate. IT would have been much simpler to have just kept my maiden name. I won't be changing my name again.
Oh my gawd just when you think you've seen it all!
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