Women who keep their married name YEARS after the divorce.

missbiggles1

coolcait wrote: »

The only politician that I can remember being introduced with a title was the Reverend Ian Paisley!

I honestly don't remember any female politicians being introduced as 'Mrs', or 'Ms' or 'Miss'.

I remember them being introduced by their job title, or 'status' within the House of Commons - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Labour backbencher Clare Short; Speaker of the House of commons Betty Boothroyd.

The same thing that happened in my work arena - "This is Jemima Bloggs, Job Title, Department/Company".

The only reason I ever knew whether colleagues/clients/etc were (in alphabetical order) Miss, Mrs or Ms was due to checking their preference, to make sure that we addressed correspondence correctly!

Not even Mrs Thatcher?

missbiggles1

mumps wrote: »

Do widows ever revert to maiden name? Or stop using Mrs?

Doesn't that rather assume we've taken our husbands' surnames in the first place or ever used the title Mrs?

missbiggles1

GingerBob wrote: »

So called "gender stereotyping" is absolute boll*cks, big time.

I'd love to think that you'd said that as a humourous play on words - unfortunately I think you wrote it without an inkling of irony.;)

Pollycat

Izadora wrote: »

You'd think so but it does happen. There are only 5 people in this country with my surname and my mum and her brother-in-law, who had the same initials and banked with the same bank, often used to get things which were meant for other one.

Is that recently?

GingerBob_3

Mrs Thatcher, Mrs Merkel, Mrs Clinton, Mrs May. Some of the most powerful women that world has known refer to themselves using Mrs.

notanewuser

GingerBob wrote: »

Mrs Thatcher, Mrs Merkel, Mrs Clinton, Mrs May. Some of the most powerful women that world has known refer to themselves using Mrs.

I've never heard Hillary Clinton described as Mrs (she also kept her maiden name as part of her name. She's Hillary Rodham Clinton.)

Ditto Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher, and it took me a while to realise who you meant by Mrs May because she's always referred to as Teresa May.

But if those are the only women you're aware of, I can see why you struggle.

This is quite interesting.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/GeneralProfessionalIssues/49826

GingerBob_3

notanewuser wrote: »

I've never heard Hillary Clinton described as Mrs (she also kept her maiden name as part of her name. She's Hillary Rodham Clinton.)

Ditto Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher, and it took me a while to realise who you meant by Mrs May because she's always referred to as Teresa May.

But if those are the only women you're aware of, I can see why you struggle.

This is quite interesting.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/GeneralProfessionalIssues/49826

I'm not struggling!

Jagraf

I really do struggle when people argue on my behalf for the 'wrong' decisions they think I have made by me deciding what to call myself.

Jagraf

notanewuser wrote: »

I've never heard Hillary Clinton described as Mrs (she also kept her maiden name as part of her name. She's Hillary Rodham Clinton.)

Ditto Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher, and it took me a while to realise who you meant by Mrs May because she's always referred to as Teresa May.

But if those are the only women you're aware of, I can see why you struggle.

This is quite interesting.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/GeneralProfessionalIssues/49826

I'm not sure what you are trying to prove by your link, other than women are making their own choices about what to call themselves, in exactly the same way as they are on this thread.

coolcait

notanewuser wrote: »

http://time.com/3940094/maiden-married-names-countries/

Seems like much of the rest of the developed world is waaaaay ahead of us.

Or, to look at it another way, arguably that link shows that some countries have denied women the right to choose how they wish to be known.

How does that advance us?

With regard to the law in France, if the law says that people cannot use a name other than the one on their birth certificate, what impact does that have on those who are transgender?

How does it advance us if someone cannot change their name, even if they wish to do so?

Not much liberte and egalite there.