Women who choose to adopt their husbands’ surnames may be penalized in the job market, a new behavioural economics study from the Netherlands suggests.
The NYT has picked up the study and provided commentary here.
The big news? (1) There were demographic differences between women who chose to take their partners’ names and those who did not. Marital name-changers were generally older and less educated, for example. And, (2) Even when name-changers and maiden-name-keepers are demographically identical, they still may be judged differently.
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