To the point...Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell welcomes the changes to parental leave but asks how many men will take it up

It's a small mercy, and one for which we should probably be grateful, but we already know that the invitation for men to share maternity leave will have a marginal effect on the distribution of parental responsibility. We know take-up will be minimal because our past expectations of men have not been met. The discovery of just how little fathers wanted to be parents, rather than mere providers, came as a shock to the women's liberation movement. And in spite of 30 years of modern feminism there has been no mass movement of men, through their unions, clubs or companies,...