WSJ.com - College-Educated Women Adopt Spouse's Surname

Fewer women are keeping their maiden name after marriage. From WSJ.com - College-Educated Women Adopt Spouse's Surname:

In a reversal of a three-decade-long trend toward more married women keeping their own names, increasing numbers of college-educated women are taking their husbands' surnames, according to a Harvard University study.

The trend had begun during the late 1970s, when the feminist movement emboldened more women to reject tradition and keep their own names when they married. That spread in the 1980s and 1990s, even though a large majority of women still took their husbands' names.
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Based on the Massachusetts birth data � which record the mother's and father's surnames as well as their educational levels � the economists extrapolated that 23% of all college-educated women in the state were using their own names in 1990, compared with 20% in 1995 and 17% in 2000.

Harvard alumni records show that among women who earned bachelor's degrees from Harvard in 1980, 44% of those who reported being married were using their own surnames 10 years after graduation. Among the class of 1990, just 32% of married women were using their own names 10 years later.
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Despite the directional shift, highly educated women remain more likely than less-educated ones to keep their surnames when they marry. In the study, women who graduated from the most prestigious colleges, including those in the Ivy League, were more likely to keep their names. Women with advanced degrees, such as a law degree or doctorate, were more likely to retain their name than those whose last stop in school was college, the researchers found.
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The only advanced degree not associated with a tendency to keep one's name is an M.B.A.

The only advanced degree not associated with a tendency to keep one's name is an M.B.A. I'm not surprised.