Currently, experts of gender studies and family sociologists pay a considerable attention to masculinity studies and the phenomenon of fatherhood. The improvement of women‘s situation in society is inevitably related not only to the exposure and celebration of women‘s experience, the social visibility of their problems and strategies of their empowerment in the public sphere but also to the transformation of the meanings of hegemonic masculinity and the redistribution of power among genders in society. The findings of masculinity studies demonstrate that in contemporary societies the role of men in family life and particularly in childcare becomes a more significant part of masculine self-realization than ever before. In Western Europe, an increasing number of men actively participate in child care, use their right to paternity leave and easily accept career ambitions of their partners. It can be argued that because of these facts women and children have not encountered more problems