Gerardo Meil, chair professor of Sociology Jesús Rogero-García, lecturer in Sociology Pedro Romero-Balsas, lecturer in Sociology, Autonomous University of Madrid;
Today, thanks to policies aimed at reconciling working life and family life, increasing numbers of men are taking parental leave to be able to raise their newborn children. These new policies represent progress towards gender equality, but in Spain a significant difference still exists between men and women in the usage they make of parental leave entitlements.