Changes in the role of women and men People in Spain feel quite indignant with a new controversial book called Get married and be submissive”. In this book there are messages for new wives that promote loyal obedience, generosity and submission to their husbands. For past generations it wasn’t allowed for women to have a bank account without men’s permission. So very few of our women could have a salaried job or even their own business. Owing to this, it isn’t too difficult to remember our mother working at home, focused on bringing her children up and taking care of her husband. A massive women’s access to the labour market has modified our society far more than other major advances in our recent history. As a result many women have achieved their economic independence in order to have a real emancipation from men. Women feel more self-confident. Even many men feel relieved of such responsibility, so that the role of the head of the family can be shared by both. In addition women’s capability and intelligence are now at the service of companies. This new effect has brought us major consumption capacity and also new sort of jobs for taking care of children and housekeeping. Nevertheless this effect also has some negative aspects. As a result of the growing number of workers there are more unemployed people. The feeling of new chances for women sometimes crashes with narrow-minded men and produces such serious conflicts as alarming increase in gender violence. In addition many children have to be educated for foreigners even at early ages due to the fact that parents can’t spend much time with them because they have to work the whole day. That often produces anxiety in parents and feelings of loneliness in babies and teenagers. Our society still has a big problem to resolve: the balance between the education of our childhood and youngsters and needs our labour relations systems. I think that realizing what our modern problems are is the first step to deal with it