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Japan requires name change after marriage – big effects on female scientists
Survey finds law requiring married couples to share the same family name causes havoc for researchers.
“The data clearly show that changing one’s surname can cause significant disadvantages,” says Misa Shimuta, a neuroscience researcher at the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, who was involved in the survey. Earlier this year, Japan’s main opposition party put forward a bill proposing that married couples be allowed to retain their own family names after marriage. In response to the proposal to change the rule and other lobbying efforts, the Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Women in Science and Engineering, an association representing about 100 academic societies working on gender equality, surveyed academics to try to understand how the current law affects them, says Noriko Sato, a forest-policy researcher at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, who led the survey.
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