“Lucie Kundra is something of a feminist rebel — not because she wouldn’t take her husband’s name when they got married in 2008, but because she did. She adopted his surname exactly as it was and in doing so defied centuries of tradition and the wishes of her own mother. That’s because she refused to add the customary feminine suffix ‘ova’ to the end of her husband’s name, as the Czech language normally dictates; she answers to Lucie Kundra, not Lucie Kundrova. … Though still a small minority, more and more young Czech women are grappling with that question as women make further inroads in Czech society and inch closer to parity with men.” (06/28/09)