New or old masculinities? The dominant male role of Spanish adolescents

Abstract

Despite the new values of gender equality, it is not clear that they had been able to generate substantive changes in the model of masculinity of new generations. This research aims to determine to what extent the gender role of boys that have been grown and have been educated in a supposedly more egalitarian society, have changed. For this purpose, we use a qualitative methodology base on focus groups and semistructured interviews with adolescents that are in the last courses of secondary education. In general, we observe a persistence of the patriarchal male role, with also some remarkable variations, consequence of some social changes that have transformed relations between men and women.