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Introducing The Mrs. Files, a project from @nytarchives that examines the traditional honorific “Mrs.” means to women.
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The Times, like much of society, almost reflexively referred to women using the construction “Mrs. Husband’s Name.”

No matter how extraordinary they were in their own right, women were symbolically subsumed into their husbands’ stories. nyti.ms/2LIyfKu
Amelia Earhart, for one, wasn’t having any of it. In a 1932 letter to The New York Times, she implored the paper to call her by her “professional name.”
Ray Eames let her larger-than-life husband Charles do the talking. But the midcentury style symbolized by their shared name was a joint creation. nyti.ms/3cQmwp9
“Women aren’t just half of a whole — they are whole themselves, whether they are married or not,” writes @NYTAmy. “That is a fact we should all be able to support in 2020. Right?” nyti.ms/2ZkuIKr
“The word is staking a claim to a right we have only had for a few years. It has been long fought, and well earned,” Kathleen Massara writes of queer partnerships. nyti.ms/2X91XOg
Read more about how the @nytarchives and @newyorktimesarts teams created the Mrs. Files nyti.ms/3g7GLAV
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