Does a woman’s decision to keep her last name, rather than take that of her husband’s, make people judge her in terms of her commitment as a wife? Do they subsequently hold her to different standards? It depends, says Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer of Portland State University in the US in Springer’s journal Gender Issues. Women and highly educated men in the US can’t be bothered much by what a woman decides to do, while men with lower education have a more negative view.