alt Hacker NewsNot only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with successful careers in modern society still keep changing their names after getting married.
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vedmakk • today at 6:39 AM
I changed my name to my wife's name when we got married. Where I live, everyone can choose if they want to keep their name or change it to either ones. So its a free choice.
AND: Hope gmail will rollout this feature asap, so I can FINALLY adjust my email address too.
bigstrat2003 • today at 2:15 AM
It is not sexist at all, let alone "obviously very sexist". Don't impute malicious motives to people like that, it's extremely rude.
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By such a definition any tradition related to gender would be sexist. The tradition is that the wife will change her name. This tradition is why it makes up the majority of cases.