El debate parlamentario sobre conciliación familiar y laboral en España: análisis de una década de iniciativas

This study describes the formulation and decision-making process related to the Spanish Parliament on the reconciliation between work and family. In this article, all the parliamentary initiatives by Deputies on this issue in the VI, VII and VIII Legislatures (1996-2008) are content analysed. After reporting the treatment of the subject, the ratio of work and family reconciliation initiatives compared to other issues is calculated by months, years and legislatures. An analysis is also done of who proposes reconciliation initiatives, whether they belong to the government or the opposition, or if they are male or female («odds ratio» [OR] confidence interval [CI] of 95% and statistically significant [MantelHaenszel method)]. We conclude that in Spain, in the VI and VII legislatures, a cycle of political attention on the difficulty of the reconciliation between work and family began. During the VIII legislature, the concept was refocused on «conciliation for equality» (and was the moment of the highest parliamentary visibility on the issue). However, from 2008 on, parliamentary interest in this issue declines.