{"id":11386,"date":"2023-02-14T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:03:55","slug":"prove-your-love-to-us-married-women-perceived-negatively-if-they-keep-their-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2023\/02\/14\/prove-your-love-to-us-married-women-perceived-negatively-if-they-keep-their-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Prove Your Love to US: Married Women Perceived Negatively if They Keep Their Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Kristin Kelley, <\/span>“The Effect of Marital Name Choices on Heterosexual Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s Perceived Quality as Romantic Partners,” Socius<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2023<\/span><\/div>\n\n

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Placing a wedding ring onto a finger. “Placing a wedding ring” <\/a> by Petar Milo\u0161evi\u0107<\/a> is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou may kiss the bride.\u201d Getting married is a pivotal moment that comes with many life changes. One of the first big decisions couples must make is whether spouses will change their last names. Although increasingly women are choosing to keep their maiden names<\/a>, and some couples have hyphenated, new research from Kristin Kelley<\/a> shows that Americans still hold strong beliefs that women should take their husband\u2019s last names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley asked a nationally representative sample of 1000 people to rate each spouse\u2019s level of commitment to love and similarity to the \u201cideal\u201d husband or wife in three different hypothetical situations: a wife taking her husband\u2019s last name, a wife keeping her maiden name, or both the husband and wife hyphenating their last names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>They found that respondents viewed women who did not take their husband’s name negatively. Specifically, respondents believed that women who kept their maiden names were 14 percent less committed and loving, and 12 percent further from the ideal wife than women who took their husband\u2019s last name.\u00a0respondents believed that women who kept their maiden names were 14 percent less committed and loving<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respondents viewed the women who hyphenated their last names with similar skepticism, rating them as 12 percent less committed and loving, and 13 percent further from the ideal wife. These results did not appear for men who changed their names. Surprisingly, these views of women were also true of highly educated respondents who we might expect to have more egalitarian gender expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These findings raise many questions\u2013about the persistence of gendered double-standards that work against women, for example, or about how marital name changes might impact partners in non-heterosexual unions.  But it is not difficult to imagine that negative attitudes towards women who don\u2019t take their husband\u2019s names at marriage carry over to their social and professional relationships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kristin Kelley, “The Effect of Marital Name Choices on Heterosexual Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s Perceived Quality as Romantic Partners,” Socius, 2023 \u201cYou may kiss the bride.\u201d Getting married is a pivotal moment that comes with many life changes. One of the first big decisions couples must make is whether spouses will change their last names. Although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2106,"featured_media":11387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13],"tags":[138069,138058,138060,138065,138064,138059,269,138057,138068,138066,138067,138062,138063,138061],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-commitment","tag-gender-expectations","tag-heterosexual-marriage","tag-husbands-last-names","tag-hyphenated-last-names","tag-ideal-spouses","tag-love","tag-maiden-names","tag-married-men","tag-married-name-change","tag-married-women","tag-newly-married","tag-newly-weds","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2023\/02\/Wedding-Ring.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}