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...dismay of an older generation of feminists, more and more brides are making the same decision. According to a recent study by Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin, the number of college-educated brides keeping their birth names ("maiden" being a somewhat unrealistic descriptor) has been falling fast. Goldin drew her data from Massachusetts birth records, New York Times wedding announcements and information kept on Harvard alumnae. For example, 10 years after graduation, 44% of married women in the Harvard class of 1980 had kept their birth names. In the class of 1990, it was just 32%. An informal poll taken...
...Hogwash," says Morrison Bonpasse, executive director of the Lucy Stone League. (Stone, who married Henry Blackwell in 1855, is believed to be the first American woman to have kept her birth name after marriage.) "If you really think that there's equality, ask him to change his name." Alternatively, says Bonpasse, look at Hillary Rodham and Teresa Heinz, who adopted the names Clinton and Kerry only during their respective husbands' gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. If a wife who doesn't take her husband's name is a political liability, Bonpasse says, it's hard to believe the fight for gender...
Scottoline, 49, turned to writing in 1986 after four years as a successful litigator at a big-name Philadelphia firm. That was the year she gave birth to her only child, Francesca, and, just a few months later, her teetering marriage fell apart. Although Scottoline loved practicing law, she discovered that she loved being home with her daughter more. "I realized that as a litigator, I just wouldn't see her," says Scottoline, "and she had no other parent on the scene...
...orders types, the requisite super-virtuous young woman, the requisite scheming villains who would, I knew, ultimately be vanquished. By the time that the frail, angelic Paul Dombey (so frail and so angelic that his doom was assured from his first appearance in the novel that begins with his birth) finally dies in his sisters arms, midway through Volume I, I found myself brushing away tears...
...Philippines, where 83% of the population is Catholic, and abortion and divorce are still illegal, 78% of the respondents believe the Pope will have a positive impact on the church in Asia. They also widely agree with his traditional stance against birth control, women in the clergy and priests marrying. In South Korea?a more diverse society where 46% of the people have no religious affiliation?opinion is more mixed. More than half the respondents are undecided or believe the Pope will have no impact on the church in Asia. Still, the vast majority of Koreans who think he will...