Keeping your maiden name on email
Has anyone successfully kept their maiden name on email while keeping their married last name on pay?
I opted to change my name to my husband’s so I would have the same last name as my child. I have a publication record so wanted to keep my maiden name at work. I understand this is becoming common practice. I could have hyphenated but I don’t like that option as it creates really long names, and potentially infinite hyphens if you pass it to your kids.
I asked HR before doing all the paperwork to change my banking and they said it was reasonable and fine. Then IT said it was impossible but eventually agreed. When I returned from mat leave my name was changed without my consent to my husband’s last name.
I’m now 6 months into a never ending battle to get my maiden name back. I’ve involved my union and they’ve asked for anyone that may have successfully implemented something like this. So if you have, please let me know.
I will probably resort to changing all my stuff back to my maiden name and just socially using my husbands name, but it’s a lot of paperwork (especially with a toddler at home) and this feels like a very backwards constraint in an organization that supposedly supports women.