"Hyphenated name. Wow. A woman proving she is just as good as a man by retaining her father's surname."
Presume much?
Nope. Hyphenated surnames in nonhispanic U.S. households have arisen as part of the feminist movement. The stated reason is that a woman should not give up her surname as part of being subjugated to a man in wedlock. This conveniently ignores that such surnames retained come from the bride's male parent. Retaining the maiden name of the bride's mother wouldn't be a solution because that is the maternal grandfather's surname. In short, the feminist hypenation game is built on a pillar of ignorance...proving one is an equal to the husband in a gender war at the altar by attaching another male's surname with a hyphen. Every nonhispanic woman I've met who has hyphenated her name has had a feminist axe to grind. I choose to neither do business with nor socialize with such people. There may be an exception. Life is too short to waste my time searching for it.