On the other hand, in Central- and South-American cultures, and
perhaps in Spain as well, the children carry both parents' family
names [e.g. Manuel, the child of Mr. Rodriguez and Ms. Ortega, is
Manuel Rodriguez Ortega -- someone I went to undergraduate school
with, and it took the college 3 years to figure out that his "last
name" was Rodriguez].
And if the women I know of Latino heritage are representative, Ms.
Ortega is now Sra. Ortega-Rodriguez.
ravena at cco.caltech.edu (Karen Allendoerfer) wrote:
>In article <E1FnBn.L02 at liverpool.ac.uk>, wahchan at liverpool.ac.uk (Mr. W.Y.
>Chan) wrote:
>> I do not believe in Japan or any South East Asian countries that it is
>> generally acceptable for a married women to include her maiden name after
>> she is married and tend to believe it is a practice acceptable to women
>> in the West.
>There was an article in _Science_ recently about a female physics
>professor in Japan who had gotten a legal divorce from her husband, even
>though they were happily married, had at least one child, and were still
>living together and behaving as if they were married. She hadn't told her
>in-laws about the divorce. I can't remember all the reasons for this, but
>at least some of them involved her desire to keep her professional
>identity, including her own name.
>Karen
Lawrence T. Gurley
Mathematics and Computer Information Systems
Merritt College
Oakland, CA
lgurley at ix.netcom.com
