Is it a submission to masculine supremacy, or a display of solidarity?

Is it considered superfluous baggage to carry your husband's name alongside your own, or is it an accepted social practice?

Is it a submission to masculine supremacy, or a display of solidarity?

Is it appropriate for you to add your husband's name to demonstrate your married status, or do you see it as a submission to male-oriented dominance?

https://www.indiaforums.com/article/jaya-bachchan-reacts-angrily-to-being-referred-to-as-jaya-amitabh-bachchan-in-parliament_209382

What are your views on this topic?!

A woman can choose if she wants to continue with the surname she has been living with throughout her life, replace her existing surname with that of her husband's or add her husband's surname to her existing one. It is completely her choice, and no law in India demands a woman to change her surname after marriage!

Is it mandatory to add the husband's name in Aadhaar?

Relationship details are not collected in Aadhaar. However, you have the option to add the name of your father/husband, etc. in the C/O field. This will be part of your address, and no documentary support is required for the same.

Is it mandatory to add spouse name in PAN Card?

It is not mandatory to update your name on the PAN card after marriage, but it is advisable to do so for consistency in official documents.

Felt it was unnecessary. The speaker said he took that name because it has been registered as such. For official documents, it is better to write your name exactly as you wish to be addressed, so that there is no scope of confusion in any formal interactions.

Infact, your work might not be proceed without your father’s name; just your mother’s name might not be sufficient in many places. However, the husband's name is not compulsarily required as far as I know.

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I Can't Answer This Question

Because Iam Not Married

I guess it's a personal choice, some women loves to add the name of their husband and some don't and both the situation are okay in my viewpoint, you can't force someone to add the name and you can't ridicule the one who wants to carry the name of her husband is what I feel.

Personally, I don't want to and I won't ever change my name in the official documents but if someone does want to then what's the harm??

Jaya bacchan have no right to speak on the behalf of all women out there, I know many girls who want to take the name of their husband after the marriage, it's what they want so how can she thinks that it's some kind of submission to patriarchy, isn't what she said come under the same kind of situation, like making it all about her idea of feminism?? And she shouldn't have changed her name if she was so repulsive with this idea

There is a widespread, though not universal, custom for a newly married wife to adopt the husband's family name.

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Priyanka has registered her baby girl's name as Maltimarie Chopra Jonas . Both parents' surnames are there ... that's the way to be .

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

A woman can choose if she wants to continue with the surname she has been living with throughout her life, replace her existing surname with that of her husband's or add her husband's surname to her existing one. It is completely her choice, and no law in India demands a woman to change her surname after marriage!

Is it mandatory to add the husband's name in Aadhaar?

Relationship details are not collected in Aadhaar. However, you have the option to add the name of your father/husband, etc. in the C/O field. This will be part of your address, and no documentary support is required for the same.

Is it mandatory to add spouse name in PAN Card?

It is not mandatory to update your name on the PAN card after marriage, but it is advisable to do so for consistency in official documents.

Nothing is/should be mandatory.

If a woman freely chooses to take her husband's surname for legal reasons or personal preference, then I don't see a issue in it as the choice is based on autonomy. However, if societal pressure forces her to change it against her will, it becomes male domination. While many see it as a cultural norm, traditions often favor men. Ultimately, it should be about personal choice without coercion, or because of culture or because woman are expected to change their name. In the end, it boils down to free-will and your decision.

Example, Sex with consent is sex, but the same thing without consent is Rape. It's about respecting choice and autonomy of every human being irrespective of gender.

That being said, in this case, if Jaya Bachchan didn't want to be addressed by her husband 's name (which is completely fine and good), then don't change your name in legal documents. You cannot change your name to husband's name in legal documents and then get angry if you are addressed by the same name, lol.

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Is it considered superfluous baggage to carry your husband's name alongside your own, or is it an accepted social practice?

Is it a submission to masculine supremacy, or a display of solidarity?

Is it appropriate for you to add your husband's name to demonstrate your married status, or do you see it as a submission to male-oriented dominance?

https://www.indiaforums.com/article/jaya-bachchan-reacts-angrily-to-being-referred-to-as-jaya-amitabh-bachchan-in-parliament_209382

What are your views on this topic?!

I dont see it as submission, but rather as love. It depends on the persons own views. Not everyone would want to change their surname and thats absolutely okay.

On papers, my surname is still the same as it was before marriage, because its a long process to change it everywhere. But on social media, I prefer to use my husbands name next to my name, it makes me feel more closer to him. By putting our names together, its a feeling of unity rather than supremacy.

The views you all expressed here cover most of the important points on this subject.

In the quest for equal rights for women in all spheres of life, every act that justifies hierarchy, , and a patriarchal mindset must be shunned totally. She has every right to choose her own identity.

Women have often complained of harassment when they have taken the path less trodden. For instance, women who have decided not to opt for their husband’s surname after marriage face a barrage of unnecessary questions and a mountain of paperwork . A society that is already battling caste-based hierarchies should not add to the discrimination by giving an upper hand to anyone in a relationship, but work towards safer spaces without gender bias, difference, and humiliation. In India, the world's most populous nation, there are still significant differences between genders in terms of politics and society!!