marlon.seton (10/28/2013)
I do hope you get asked to speak about the right thing!
Amusingly, my recent work with R has me doing a lot of LaTeX work 😀
Gary Varga (10/28/2013)
I am not particularly interested in any of these issues today but I am interested in another one: if a person takes on their partners surname or even changes it to an agreed mutually changed name like Steph (regardless of the legal whys and wherefores), how will this reflect in their professional career? What if they are published?
I made the point to get married before my career kicked off too much which was easy since my husband and I met when I was 16. The transition to my new name was therefore plannable in line with my career, for instance I ensured when working on Tribal SQL that I put my future name on it since I knew it would take that long to get published. I know a number of people both married and/or divorced who have kept the previous names because, like you say, they have become known under a certain name and didn't want the disruption. If you've gone through a messy divorce then I imagine the surname dilemma is quite significant.