From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!nancyp
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Maiden Names
Article-I.D.: tektronix.972
Posted: Tue Feb 15 23:53:32 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 10:35:51 1983

     I'm interested in knowing how many women have kept their
maiden name after marriage.

     In my case, it wasn't practical to hyphenate and both of
us wanted to keep our names (read: heritage and identity) intact.
But there are occasional problems - for instance, loan applications.
If we have kids, I think they would probably take *his* name - it's
too big of a hassle otherwise.

   Once, as a joke, I told a salesman who asked about our name
differences that "my husband kept his maiden name."  The salesman,
still hoping to make a sale, I think, seemed confused but said
he *had* heard of 1 or 2 men that did that.

                                  Nancy Peate