Timeline for Why does Holly use her maiden name at work?
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| Oct 21 at 14:10 | vote | accept | Alexandre | ||
| Oct 17 at 12:24 | comment | added | OldPadawan | @matt_black: correct, reading again, I realize my choice of words could be misleading, updated :) | |
| Oct 17 at 12:23 | history | edited | OldPadawan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 17 at 11:46 | comment | added | matt_black | Technically, Holly is not divorced (yet) at the time of the first movie. She is separated. Hence the issue with John and the use of her maiden name. He still hopes to reconcile and her eschewing of the family name is a bad sign for the possibility of recovering his marriage. And, yes, Japanese firms were sexist and prejudiced against married women, especially in senior positions. | |
| Oct 17 at 0:50 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | I think the Japanese company explanation might be a partially true excuse. Clearly there are (or have been) trouble in their marriage and she might have felt unhappy with the name McLane. The time the movie was made was a time when divorces were becoming common in the U.S. to an extent they hadn’t been before, and a lot of 80s movies featured troubled marriages. | |
| Oct 16 at 19:32 | history | answered | OldPadawan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |