Does a Woman Need to Change Her Surname after Marriage?

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Changing Surname (Family Name) of a Female Following Marriage Is a Futile Exercise

In almost all the human societies of the earth, it is still man's world. Woman has to change her surname (family name) and adopt her husband's family name post her marriage.

Getting used to her new identity and losing her old original identity could be quite inconvenient to a lady bordering on mild irritant or even a trauma. It surely will take time for her to get used to say, "I am Mrs (family name of her husband)."

In addition, it involves tons of paper work involving numerous governmental and legal agencies. It affects her social security identification (as per country's unique identification system), her passport, her driving license, her bank accounts, her other financial transactions and many other things. And imagine thousands of people in these governmental and legal agencies engaged in incorporating these changes in millions of records and files- sheer non-value adding work.

So, is it really worth it to follow this age old hackneyed procedure? Frankly speaking is it really necessary to have a surname or a family name at all, not only in case of the females but even for the men?

As far as the children are concerned, the husband-wife team can decide if they want their children to follow any surname at all or they could decide to give them either wife's original surname or husband's surname or evolve a new integrated surname derived from the two surnames.

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