PEOPLE JUDGE COUPLES IF THE WIFE DIDN’T TAKE HER HUSBAND’S LAST NAME

A study from the University of Nevada finds that people will pass judgment on couples in which the wife does not take the husband’s last name. Study author Rachael Robnett, a psychology professor at the University of Nevada, found that when a woman chooses not to take her husband’s surname after marriage, people perceive her husband as being more feminine and less masculine. Those same women, on the other hand, are perceived as wielding more power and being more self-focused, ambitious and assertive.
* Yeah, that Jay-Z and Tim McGraw – what wussies.
* Well … we’ve completely run of things to study.
* Let me guess – women who hyphenate their last name with their husband’s are deemed indecisive. Am I right? Am I a research professor?
* I need to ask my wife what I think about this.