to think that Men should have to show their marital status at all times

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Just going through the Birthday Honours list.
www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_202133.pdf
Every single woman is marked out as "Miss", "Ms" or "Mrs"
and yet none of the men are.
Sex discrimination of the most base order IMHO.
Why do women's achievements seem to depend on their marital status and yet men's do not?

YANBU. Women should have no title unless prof or dr etc the same as the men.

I get a bit when I get called Ms.
I am Mrs.
It is what make us a family unit . Mr Jamdonut, me and the three young Jamdonuts.
I like the title
Sorry, but I just do. But each to their own.

YABU
I'm with jamdonut

I am the mum in a family unit. I have not, and never will, change my name. I am my own person and don't need to be known as Mrs or whatever. It has not made us any less close as a family unit.

Same as for Darts, name and title have no bearing on our closeness as a family unit. I will never call myself Mrs.

I am MY own person,that didn't change when I became Mrs! BUT, I like being a wife to someone,and the unity of us all having the same surname. I don't get what's wrong with that. I wish those of you who don't like to use your married title wouldn't keep putting those of us who do,down.

From working in a school,though, it gets very confusing when family members have different surnames from each other, and you don't want to insult someone by calling them Miss,Ms or Mrs,if they are not, but you don't want to seem direspectful and use a first name. Not everyone likes to be called by their first name by teachers,doctors,nurses etc.

It's relationships that make a family unit, not a set of letters.

I think it would be fair enough to equalise things. So either women are all Ms, or men have to declare whether they are Mr or Master.

It is very odd to have titles for women only on that list.

But rather than have titles for men that denote marital status, I would prefer that the titles given to women didn't. (Yes, I am a Ms and have been since I was about 15.)

Jam - the school confusion thing is precisely why it would be so much better if all women were called Ms to my mind. Even if there is still some surname confusion. I like being a wife to someone too, I just don't need it reflected in my name. As you say, each to their own.