Sexual Equality

[country boy]

OK OK on a lighter note....try this if you haven't already: In Google search type your full name as given and then hit search...it's amazing......

[hillybilly]

..or go to
http://www.omniglot.com/links/yournamein.htm
and get your name in heiroglyphs, Chinese, Braille whatever. Hours of fun.

[silver]

hillybilly

it was a surname

Was or is?

How many English men would change their name to their wives "maiden" name?

[jpinks]

Having just been on holiday in Spain, Costa de la Luz area it was noticeable that quite a few of the small villages we visited had the typical small squares, several bars full of men and not many women roaming around. My main concern here is, is Spain still treating it's women as second class citizens or is there actual change as many of the glossy magazines lead us to believe? Comments from those resident in Spain itself would be greatly appreciated.

Going back to the original question...
All the men are in the bars escaping the wrath of their wives
And how can one say a society isn't practicing sexual equality when one of the biggest blokes I've met is called after his granny - Jose-Maria !!
I don't think Spain is seriously unequal for men and women - just differently. UK has inequalities too - so Brits have nothing to shout about.

[silver]

In Britain in 1967 (francos time), a man working in a factory was paid about £21 a week, while a woman was paid only £10 a week for doing exactly the same job.

[nevada smith]

jpinks,
believe me, jose-maria isn't named after his 'granny', nor would his female counter-part, maria-jose be named after her 'granpa'... this is a catholic country... Joseph & Mary ring a bell..?

[jpinks]

nevada smith - believe me, I asked him where he got his name. I come from a catholic country