Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures

We consider a model for the evolution of surname distribution under a gender-equality measure currently being discussed by the Spanish Parliament (whereby children would adopt their mother's and father's surnames in alphabetical order). We quantify how this would bias the alphabetical dist...

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Autores principales: Lafuerza, Luis F., Toral, Raul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3077379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21533170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018105
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description We consider a model for the evolution of surname distribution under a gender-equality measure currently being discussed by the Spanish Parliament (whereby children would adopt their mother's and father's surnames in alphabetical order). We quantify how this would bias the alphabetical distribution of surnames, and analyze its effect on the present distribution of surnames in Spain.
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spelling pubmed-30773792011-04-29 Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures Lafuerza, Luis F. Toral, Raul PLoS One Research Article We consider a model for the evolution of surname distribution under a gender-equality measure currently being discussed by the Spanish Parliament (whereby children would adopt their mother's and father's surnames in alphabetical order). We quantify how this would bias the alphabetical distribution of surnames, and analyze its effect on the present distribution of surnames in Spain. Public Library of Science 2011-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3077379/ /pubmed/21533170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018105 Text en Lafuerza, Toral. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures
title Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures
title_full Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures
title_fullStr Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures
title_full_unstemmed Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures
title_short Evolution of Surname Distribution under Gender-Equality Measures
title_sort evolution of surname distribution under gender-equality measures
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3077379/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018105
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