Why do women even in the age of feminism continue to take the names of men when they marry?

In the United States, most women adopt the names of their husbands' families according to the largest data analysis in recent years, and the figure is estimated to be 70 percent. For British women, the figure amounts to about 90 percent of the young women, aged 18 to 30.

As these figures are lower than they were before a generation, it is clear that there remains a strong cultural rate in large parts of the Western world, despite the fact that we now live in a stronger individual and conscious period of sex and gender.

Although femininism definitions stand out, 68 percent of women under 30 years of age describe themselves as feminists in the United States and about 60 percent in the United Kingdom.

It's very surprising... (that many women still get men's surnames) because it's a patriarchal tradition, because the idea that women, by marriage, become husband property,” says Simon Duncan, professor at Bradford University. It describes the tradition as being “medulant” in many of the English-speaking countries, although the concept of “producing” of women had been rejected more than a century in Britain, and there is no more legal obligation for women to take the names of men.

Most Western European countries also follow the same pattern (rejections are Spain and Iceland, where women tend to bear their surnames even when they get married, and Greece, which has applied legal for women who return their surnames for the entire life of 1983). Even in Norway, a country that regularly goes to first places in gender equality, most married women still have men's surnames.

The question that remains is... is this a harmless tradition, or is there some form of meaning from those times around here?

Patriarchal Traditions

Duncan and his team have identified two main motives that hold this patriarchal tradition among feminist women.

The first is the Persianity of patriarchal power (even if it is clear to couples or not). And secondly, the ideal of good “Family” sense of having the same last name as your partner symbolizes commitment, and connecting you with your potential children as a unit.

Some noncritical couples took the practice simply because it was conventional, while others actively embraced the idea of passing men's surnames.

His team found that the change of surnames by women, notibly, was linked to the survival of other patriarchal traditions, such as fathers who give brides and men who should propose marriage. These elements have, he says, formed the part of the optimism of “the marital impact” for many couples.