Did your mother keep or change her name when she got married?

[Joe Republic]

Changed (normal).

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.

I didn't know that.  Interesting, and weird.  But then I've never understood any non-Anglophone naming customs.

[Joe Republic]

Changed (normal).

Change (normal)

I'm disappointed to see Democrats consider this normal.

I consider it normal because it is normal, statistically speaking.  See the results of your own poll if you dispute this.

Since (heterosexual) marriage is an equal relationship between a man and a woman, there should be no more reason for a woman to change her name than for a man to change his. This practice absolutely perpetuates inequality. I know some will claim that it is for family unity, but most same-sex couples either don't change names or they combine/hyphenate them.

It's not like women don't have a choice in the matter.  And if most women agreed with you, perhaps the share of women keeping their maiden name after marriage wouldn't have declined from 23% in the 90's to just 8% now.