NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/soc/feminism/2577

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From: [e-mail] (Helen Johnston)
Subject: Re: Name changing
Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu
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Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Date: 20 Nov 92 16:45:50 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
[the university took it upon themselves to change her name for her]
>                                        It infuriates me to think in the
>1990's a university would still assume that a woman is automatically
>changing her name when she gets married!
>It's bad enought socially when people assume you've changed your name, but
>when institutions do I feel frustrated and saddened...
>
>Anybody else had this kind of experience?
>
Yes, I also did not change my name upon marriage. When I got here to the
Netherlands I filled in all my forms with as "Helen Johnston", but one
of the forms asked details about my husband (if any). All of a sudden
all my mail comes to me addressed as "Dr Picard-Johnston". I would send
it back saying "no-one of that name here", except that it includes my
pay-check!
--
Helen Johnston       | Astronomye is an harde thynge and yvel forto knowe.
[e-mail]  |      -- William Langland, Piers the Plowman
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