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잘 지내셨나요?

이번주 주제는 결혼 후 바뀌는 여성의 "surname" 입니다.

우리나라는 결혼한다고 바뀌지는 않고 있지만 서양의 많은 나라와 일본 등의 나라에서는 바뀐다고 하네요.

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In the UK women traditionaly take their husband's surname when they get married - but are things changing?

A growing number of western millennial men are ignoring tradition and taking their new wife's name when they get married.

Now, traditionally in the UK, when a man and a woman get married, the woman takes the man's family name. And this replaces her maiden name.

This all dates back to the Norman invasion of England, back in 1066. They introduced the idea that when a woman married a man, she became his property. As a result of this, she took his name.

These days, many women elect to keep their maiden name upon marriage or combine it with their new husband's in some way, sometimes by making the name double-barrelled.

In a BBC article about surnames and marriage, Rory Dearlove, formerly Rory Cook, talks about why he decided to take his wife's surname.

He said that he wasn't really attached to his name anyway. To him it didn't make any difference.

A recent study of 2000 UK adults by Opinium, a strategic insight agency, suggested that one in ten millennial men, currently between 18 and 34 years old, fall into this category.

Charlie Shaw, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor, who took his wife's name when they married last year, said that it was an opportunity to acknowledge the unseen patriarchal bias and ***ism in our society.

Rachel Robnett, a researcher at the University of Nevada surveyed a number of people in the US and UK, and found that the husbands of women who keep their maiden names are viewed as 'feminine', while the women are believed to 'wear the trousers'.

A typical family unit would be two parents and some children. Well, that answers that question. People don't seem to mind who takes who's name.

[팩트체크] 한국은 왜 결혼 후 남편 성을 안 따를까?

http://news.jtbc.joins.com/article/article.aspx?news_id=NB11125356

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gptx4XB81Qw (위 기사 내용의 동영상 보도자료)

주제와 약간 다르긴 하지만 성차별적인 문화에 대한 청와대 국민 청원도 있어서 올려봅니다.

http://www1.president.go.kr/petitions/11955?page=624

청원개요여성이 결혼 후 시댁에서 호칭은 대부분 '님' 자가 들어갑니다.
심지어 남편의 결혼 하지 않은 여동생과 남동생은 '아가씨' 와 '도련님' 입니다.

그렇다면 남성이 결혼 후 처가의 호칭은 '님'자가 없습니다.
장모, 장인, 처제, 처형... 입니다.

2017년을 살고 있는 지금
성평등에도 어긋나며 여성의 자존감이 낮아질 수 밖에 없는 호칭이라고 생각합니다.
이는 바로 고쳐져야 하며
수 많은 며느리들이 동등한 입장에서 보호 받아야 할 권리며, 나라가 나서 주어야 합니다.

Vocabulary

maiden name

a woman's family name before she is married

[Ex] My mother refused to give up her maiden name to my father when she got married.

double-barrelled

two names that are joined by a hyphen

[ex] the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker-Bowles

patriarchal

controlled by men

[ex] The feminine equivalent is matriarchal, controlled by women.