The paper examines the distribution of the time dedicated by mothers and fathers to childcare activities, since according to the literature, it is recommended that both the mother and the father participate in them together. The study focuses on the Spanish case due to the great debate currently existing in Spain about the low participation of fathers in childcare. We use a dissimilarity index, which fits this type of research on collaboration or specialization perfectly, and also analyze whether or not participation is spatially correlated across the Spanish provinces and whether patterns of father participation can be found. As far as we know, this is the first time a study on the topic has used statistical measures of spatial correlation. The data were provided by the Time-Use Survey conducted by the Spanish Statistics Office in 2009-2010 and the final database consists of 1,878 heterosexual households with children. Results indicate that (i) male participation in childcare is still far from female participation, (ii) the way both men and women distribute their childcare time among childcare activities is certainly similar and (iii) in general, there is no spatial autocorrelation either in the time men spend on childcare or on the index of dissimilarity.

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