{"id":765,"date":"2008-08-19T22:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/08\/19\/765\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T22:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:45:23","slug":"surname-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/surname-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Surname equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88889363@N00\/2222968871\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2405\/2222968871_22ce89c9ec_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88889363@N00\/2222968871\/\">O Donnell 1 Norton<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/88889363@N00\/\">jane_lyons2000<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an article in The Independent today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/this-britain\/no-one-understood-why-i-took-my-wifes-surname-894075.html\">a guy who&#8217;s taken his wife&#8217;s surname<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although this practice is not that common in Denmark, I think the UK is quite a bit behind Denmark in this regard.  I definitely find it utterly bizarre that anybody would assume that a wife had taken her husband&#8217;s surname without asking her.<\/p>\n<p>I also think Mr. Myddelton (n\u00e9 Dyer) should go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Court_of_Human_Rights\">European Court of Human Rights<\/a> to get his \u00a334 back &ndash; surely that&#8217;s a clear case of sex discrimination if a woman in the same situation wouldn&#8217;t have to pay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Donnell 1 Norton Originally uploaded by jane_lyons2000 There&#8217;s an article in The Independent today about a guy who&#8217;s taken his wife&#8217;s surname. Although this practice is not that common in Denmark, I think the UK is quite a bit behind Denmark in this regard. I definitely find it utterly bizarre that anybody would assume that a wife had taken her husband&#8217;s surname without asking her. I also think Mr. Myddelton (n\u00e9 Dyer) should go to the European Court of Human Rights to get his \u00a334 back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}