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They think it's all ová
BBC From Our Own Correspondent
10 June 2021
Women in the Czech Republic may soon be able to take non-gendered versions of their surnames, after MPs backed a change in the law. In Czech, the ending ová is added automatically to almost all female surnames, even foreign ones, and they can only be dropped in very limited circumstances. It’s been that way for centuries … but could be about to change.