Nostalgia-Married women used their husbands’ names

It was easy to know a married women back in the day. At school, two new female teachers would be introduced as Mrs Were and Miss Juma. Mrs Were, as proof of her status, got ‘paged’ almost every three years, while Miss Juma dropped her single status by Class Eight. Married women signed report forms with Pame Were (Mrs) for obvious reasons - with their pigeonhole in the staffroom indicating as much.