Spain ? Parliament passed a gender-equality bill Thursday aimed at getting more Spanish women into elected office and corporate boardrooms – and more men heating baby bottles and changing diapers.

“Today is the first day of a different society,” Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a self-proclaimed feminist, said before the vote.

The final tally in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies was 192-0, with 119 abstentions. The latter were from the conservative Popular Party, which says the bill is too interventionist. A total of 39 lawmakers did not attend the session.

The highlight of the so-called Law of Equality grants 15 days of paternity leave to new fathers, changing a little-used current arrangement in which mothers of newborns can lend all or part of their 10 weeks’ leave to the father.