Hyphenated Names– for Women Only?
Women’s Liberation   Women’s Liberation, aka Feminism  (The
following post- rant, perhaps- is focused upon life in America
these days for women. It does feed into Islam, and connects to
Middle Eastern values, I promise you.)  Women’s Liberation–
that’s what we called it before the word “feminism” entered the
common parlance. Back in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, we
American women wanted to liberate ourselves from the subjugation
of our minds to the greater glory of our bodies and our services
as wives and mothers. We also wanted equal pay for equal work.
None of that sounded so difficult, and indeed, now we are able,
indeed expected, to develop our minds, earn our own money, and
pay our own ways in all areas of life. We now have equal pay for
equal work.   It should have stopped there.  How did this ball
keep rolling, such that now we are expected to keep not only one
full-time  job, but two? How did we let ourselves be charmed
into the workplac