By Katie Spencer, Sky News Reporter
Changes to parental leave will "level the playing field" for women in the workplace, a top employer has told Sky News.
Gaenor Bagley, head of people at PWC, says allowing couples to share post-baby leave entitlements will take the pressure off for many women when it comes to taking time out from their careers to have a baby.
"There are lots of dads that do want to take time off and current legislation doesn't make it easy to do that," she explains.
"Unless we create that equality, unless we level the playing field, we're never going to make it equally likely that you're successful in your career whether you're a man or a woman."
The changes will allow couples greater flexibility and give women the option to end their maternity leave early if they would rather share it with their partner.
New mums will still have to take first two weeks post-birth off, but the changes will mean couples can break up their 50 weeks of parental leave in a combination that suits them.
But crucially companies will be under no obligation to offer anything but statutory terms to men.
So for any couple looking to share leave, the pay deal that's offered by the respective company they work for is likely to be a big factor.
Only time will tell if employers will be willing to offer the same attractive maternity pay deals to their male employees.
New dad Alistair Wood's employers have already allowed him to adopt the flexible approach to parental leave.
It allowed him to take three and half months off work when his baby daughter was born. When he returned to work, his husband was then able to take the following three months.
"You're sharing the parenting but you're also reducing the amount of time that you're out of the office," he told Sky News.
"When I returned to the office there was a bit of a transition as I got up to speed, like anyone would have after a long holiday. But actually there's less of an impact overall, so now, a few months down the track, my career is back where it was."
Shared leave can be applied for from 1 December, but parents won't be able to take the leave itself before April 2015.
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