"Miss goes missing on French official forms" - let's do the same here!

[Alittlefeminist]

Hurray for French feminists who have pushed through a revision of women's titles: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/22/mademoiselle-removed-from-french-official-forms :)

Let's do the same!

Blimey, mathanxiety - last sentence seems a bit strong for unmarried young women hoping to marry one day !

I think it's a shame "Ms" was chosen as it doesn't sound good in spoken English.
I just don't see it taking off in this country ?
I think there's more hope for a re-interpretatation of "Mrs"

Unmarried young women in a southern midwest university in an economically depressed region are looking for an MRS degree. The study was done in Carbondale, Illinois, where the coal mines have long since closed, the biggest local employers are the university and local hospital and the Walmart, and many of the students are drawn from neighbouring rural Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri as well as small town and rural southern Illinois. The biggest thing to do at weekends on rural university campuses that feature fraternities and sororities is party hearty and hook up. Places like that really do have a meatmarket feel to them.

And southern Indiana and Arkansas are not too far off either. It is the heartland of country music, fundamentalist churches, and a very traditional view of gender roles that tends to pressurise young women to conform to stereotypical attributes of women, and aspire to traditional women's roles (Mrs).

I can't believe this thread has got so long!

I think anyone who says we have the choice over title is a bit deluded. It's all very well saying you chose Mrs, but that's the standard title for a married woman so it's not much of a choice, is it? Most of the women I know are married and they're all Mrs. None of them have chosen anything different. I am a teacher and have only come across a couple of teachers who use Ms.

Of course titles have meaning. What would be the point otherwise? You might think of Mrs as being a mature woman, but that's because most older women are married, or have been. Mrs means "wife of".