Why dose Hillary use bills last name [ Clinton] ?

Question

When they married she wouldnt take it why now?

Answer 1

She has always used her husbands last name....

She generally uses "Hillary Rodham Clinton". Rodham is her maiden name. This is the way many women did it - and still do.

Answer 2

I have always heard her called Hillary Rodham Clinton. Career woment often stick with their maiden name. That is what they are best known as. Here is one to confuse you. Diane Feinstein is marrid to a guy named Blum. Neither is her maiden name. Feinstein was her first husband's name. He died but because she established herself using Feinstein she sticks with it.

It is like Shakespeare said " a rose by any other name will smell as sweet", or something like that.

Answer 3

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has dropped the use of her maiden name "Rodham" in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clinton identifies herself as "Hillary" in her campaign press releases and on her campaign website. The lone mention of her maiden name is in a campaign biography that says "Hillary's father, Hugh Rodham, was the son of a factory worker from Scranton."

She continues to use "Hillary Rodham Clinton" in her New York-focused press releases and in the Senate.

Clinton appeared surprised last week when asked why her presidential campaign had dropped her maiden name. Clinton laughed, shook her head and replied: "I haven't, I haven't," before dashing off.

Howard Wolfson, a top communications adviser to Clinton, downplayed any significance to the change. Asked if it was a strategic decision to drop "Rodham," Wolfson replied: "That's a fair question, but there's no plan behind it."

The second-term senator and former first lady has emphasised various names in Arkansas and Washington, DC, over the past 25 years.

Laurie Scheuble, a sociologist at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the choice of last names by married women, says Clinton's decision to drop her maiden name puts her in sync with the vast majority of married women in America.

"To most people, family means everyone having the same last name," says Scheuble, author of "Trends in Women's Marital Name Choice: 1966-1996" and "Attitudes Toward Nontraditional Marital Name Choices." "She's doing the right thing politically to appeal to the most voters. She's conforming to the social norm."

Married working women often face a dilemma over whether to retain their maiden name alone, use both their maiden name and their husband's last name or use their husband's last name alone.

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Clinton and seven other married women in the Senate have adopted the names of a husband. Only Clinton and Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison have used their maiden names in conjunction with their husbands' last names.

Scheuble says her research shows that 95 percent of married women use a husband's last name. Of those, about 25 percent informally use their maiden name as a middle name.

About 4 percent retain their maiden name as their last name.

And about one percent legally change their last names to hyphenated names that include both their maiden name and a husband's last name.

Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton, her Yale Law School classmate, in 1975 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Answer 4

She always used her married name after getting married. She also used her maiden name.

Answer 5

hmmm.

i have frequently heard her referred to as hillary rodham clinton...

Answer 6

Disingenuous politics. Anything to get elected because the end justifies the means. (American Socialist Party).

Answer 7

It's to her advantage to use his name now.