Tine Rostgaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 280528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tine Rostgaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tine |
| FAMILY NAME | Rostgaard |
| SIGNATURE | ROSTGAARD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2752-3533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Psychosocial resilience surrounding age-typical losses among older adults in Sweden
Introduction: Resilience is an important but often neglected aspect of healthy or successful aging. This study used a new approach for modelling psychosocial resilience to investigate responses when faced with age-typical losses. Rather than viewing resilience as a trait, we modelled trajectories of life satisfaction when faced with partner or functional loss in later life to identify resilient trajectories. Then, we examined characteristics asso…
Revisiting the Nordic long-term care model for older people—still equal?
With the extensive long-term care services for older people, the Nordic countries have been labelled ‘caring states’ as reported (Leira, Welfare state and working mothers: the Scandinavian experience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992). The emphasis on services and not cash benefits ensures the Nordics a central place in the public service model (Anttonen and Sipilä, J Eur Soc Policy 6:87–100, 1996). The main feature of this ideal model…
Development of an internationally accepted definition of reablement
With an ageing society, the demand for health and social care is increasing. Traditionally, staff provide care for their clients rather than with them. In contrast, reablement aims to support people to maximise their competences to manage their everyday life as independently as possible. There is considerable variation between and within countries regarding the conceptual understanding of the approach. This variation affects the ability to evalua…
How Different Parental Leave Schemes Create Different Take-Up Patterns
The prevailing gender ideologies in the Nordic countries generally support the equal division of work and family life between men and women, including the equal sharing of parental leave. Regardless, as the exceptional case in the Nordic region, Denmark currently has no father’s quota, and this despite the strong impact such policy has effectively proven to have on gender equality in take-up of parental leave. While a quota intended for the fathe…
Covid-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states
This article examines COVID-19 and residential care for older people during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, comparing a range of countries - Denmark, England, Germany, Italy and Spain - to identify the policy approaches taken to the virus in care homes and set these in institutional and policy context. Pandemic policies towards care homes are compared in terms of lockdown, testing and the supply of personal protective equipment. The compa…
Gender equality
This chapter is about the design of Parental Leave policy and its relationship to leave-taking by fathers and gender equality more generally. The Nordic countries have historically emphasised gender equality in policymaking and have been in the forefront for introducing policies that encourage mothers and fathers to share responsibility for the care of children. Parental Leave is considered to be one such policy as it secures fathers’ rights to p…
Supplemental home care and topping‐up
How does a public service model based on service universalism react to the introduction of market principles of topping up? In a recent so‐called Free Municipality Scheme (an experimental scheme that allowed for greater operational autonomy locally in an effort to reduce state bureaucracy), a number of Danish municipalities were for the first time ever allowed to compete with for‐profit providers of home care in selling supplemental home care ser…
Childcare as a global policy agenda
The chapter by Rostgaard investigates what has been the foundation for the overall idea of childcare as a global agenda across advanced economies, its changing meaning as well as the implementation in national policy. More specifically, it investigates how the ideational influence of seeing childcare as a global agenda has come about as a response to new contextual, scientific and policy realities in the transition to knowledge economies. Further…
Handbook of Family Policy
The Handbook of Family Policy examines how state and workplace policies support parents and their children in developing, earning and caring. With original contributions from 44 leading scholars, this Handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on family policies and family policy research, taking stock of current literature as well as providing analyses of present-day policies, and where they should head in the future.
Chapter 10
The Nordic welfare model is known in the literature for its explicit support of the equal treatment of men and women in both family and gender equality policies as well as its achievements in these policy areas. Policy arguments have to promote gender equality and act in the best interest of the child, ensuring that the child access to care from both parents as well as to early childhood education and care. However, the knowledge of how the Nordi…
Public/private ownership and quality of care
Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the development of parental leave in the Nordic countries in the last decade or so and explain the different roads taken by individual countries in this regard. Focusing on the recent development, mainly on father’s quota, we discuss whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift in some of these countries, away from an emphasis on gender equality to a more traditional family approach, with the mot…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The Nordic countries are known worldwide for their extensive welfare system and gender equality, which enables both parents to hold jobs, earn money, and care for their children. In this volume, scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as from the United States and the UK, explore the effects of these policies on fatherhood, and how the policies that support it contribute to shaping and influencing the image, role, and practice of fathers in a…
Cross-national Variations in Care and Care as a Labour Market
The main aim of this chapter is to provide contextual cross-national background information on changes in care policies in a selected number of European countries that will be of relevance for the development of the overriding analytical framework of this volume as well as for setting up the grounds for comparison of national case studies. The chapter is divided into three main parts. The first part looks at trends in coverage and expenditure for…
Pressures towards and within Universalism
Within Europe, care policies for children and older people have been, over the last two decades, one of the most dynamic policy areas of welfare state development. Both long-term care (LTC) and early childhood education and care (ECEC) respond to changing needs and demands for care. Ageing populations, labour market participation of women, decline in fertility and changes in family dynamics put pressure on national care systems. Although all coun…
Changing policies, changing patterns of care
Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries
De nordiske lande anses ofte for at være foregangslande inden for ligestillingsområdet. Det er sandt at kvinder generelt har en stærkere position i de nordiske samfund end i resten af verden. Der er en utvetydig vilje i de fleste – eller måske i alle – områder af samfundet med henblik på at fremme og styrke ligestillingen mellem kvinder og mænd. I de senere år er der sket nogle betydelige forandringer i familierne hvor mændene nu i højere grad ta…
Quality reforms in Danish home care - balancing between standardisation and individualisation
Despite relatively generous coverage of the over-65 population, Danish home help services receive regular criticism in the media and public opinion polls. Perhaps as a consequence, reforms of Danish home care policy for senior citizens have placed a strong emphasis on quality since the 1990s. This reform strategy represents a shift from the welfare state modernisation programme of the 1980s, which built mainly on economic strategies of cost-effic…
Care Between Work and Welfare in European Societies
This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed
Gender Equality Revisited – Changes in Nordic Childcare Policies in the 2000s
The Nordic childcare policy model is often reviewed and even recommended internationally for its contribution to gender equality, high female labour force participation and, perhaps more indirectly, to a high fertility rate. Nordic childcare services and parental leave schemes have thus been portrayed in the literature as policies which have managed to facilitate a work–family model of dual earners and dual carers. However, the recent introductio…
Welfare-state change, the strengthening of economic principles, and new tensions in relation to care
Fathers' rights to paid parental leave in the Nordic countries
European Union policy encourages men and women to share parental leave to balance work and family life and promote gender equality in the labor market. A new directive extends parental leave to four months and introduces a quota, so one month is reserved for each parent. This article explores to what extent government-provided, paid parental leave and quotas for fathers could bring about equality in the division of leave between men and women by …
Preferences or institutions? Work—family life opportunities in seven European countries
In her Work—Lifestyle Choices, Hakim argued that attitudinal factors like work—lifestyle preferences are more important than institutions or structures in explaining female employment. Our aim is to study whether we can substantiate Hakim's preference theory or whether we should lay more emphasis on institutional factors. We ask whether there are systematic differences in attitudes to work and family life as proposed by Hakim. To what extent do t…
Constructing the Care Consumer
Traditional welfare institutions are challenged by the desire to design our own individual welfare packages. Politically, the response can be to introduce choice in social policy, also from the aim that the pacified welfare client should re-materialise as an active welfare consumer. This paper analyses the development of the form and concept of consumerism in social policy, taking the domiciliary care for the elderly in Denmark as an example. It …
Fathers' rights to paid parental leave in the Nordic countries
European Union policy encourages men and women to share parental leave to balance work and family life and promote gender equality in the labor market. A new directive extends parental leave to four months and introduces a quota, so one month is reserved for each parent. This article explores to what extent government-provided, paid parental leave and quotas for fathers could bring about equality in the division of leave between men and women by …
Preferences or institutions? Work—family life opportunities in seven European countries
In her Work—Lifestyle Choices, Hakim argued that attitudinal factors like work—lifestyle preferences are more important than institutions or structures in explaining female employment. Our aim is to study whether we can substantiate Hakim's preference theory or whether we should lay more emphasis on institutional factors. We ask whether there are systematic differences in attitudes to work and family life as proposed by Hakim. To what extent do t…
Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the development of parental leave in the Nordic countries in the last decade or so and explain the different roads taken by individual countries in this regard. Focusing on the recent development, mainly on father’s quota, we discuss whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift in some of these countries, away from an emphasis on gender equality to a more traditional family approach, with the mot…
Setting time aside for the father
This paper looks at the perspectives of a particular 'stakeholder' in the care/work sharing construction, namely the father, and how his rights to leave are secured in paternity and parental leave legislation in Scandinavia. The paper claims that the ideology and social constructions of the role of the mother and father differ in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Fatherhood and the modern father are important in Sweden, whereas the emphasis is on paren…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The Nordic countries are known worldwide for their extensive welfare system and gender equality, which enables both parents to hold jobs, earn money, and care for their children. In this volume, scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as from the United States and the UK, explore the effects of these policies on fatherhood, and how the policies that support it contribute to shaping and influencing the image, role, and practice of fathers in a…
Gender Equality Revisited – Changes in Nordic Childcare Policies in the 2000s
The Nordic childcare policy model is often reviewed and even recommended internationally for its contribution to gender equality, high female labour force participation and, perhaps more indirectly, to a high fertility rate. Nordic childcare services and parental leave schemes have thus been portrayed in the literature as policies which have managed to facilitate a work–family model of dual earners and dual carers. However, the recent introductio…
Constructing the Care Consumer
Traditional welfare institutions are challenged by the desire to design our own individual welfare packages. Politically, the response can be to introduce choice in social policy, also from the aim that the pacified welfare client should re-materialise as an active welfare consumer. This paper analyses the development of the form and concept of consumerism in social policy, taking the domiciliary care for the elderly in Denmark as an example. It …
Covid-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states
This article examines COVID-19 and residential care for older people during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, comparing a range of countries - Denmark, England, Germany, Italy and Spain - to identify the policy approaches taken to the virus in care homes and set these in institutional and policy context. Pandemic policies towards care homes are compared in terms of lockdown, testing and the supply of personal protective equipment. The compa…
Caring for Children and Older People in Europe - A Comparison of European Policies and Practice
The study of social care benefits is the Cinderella of welfare state analysis. Little is therefore known about the institutional design of these benefits, nor has much work been carried out as to what analytical frame should be adopted when analysing social care benefits. This article sets out to present a conceptual framework for the comparative understanding of social care benefits in arguing that the study of social care policies benefits from…
Welfare-state change, the strengthening of economic principles, and new tensions in relation to care
How Different Parental Leave Schemes Create Different Take-Up Patterns
The prevailing gender ideologies in the Nordic countries generally support the equal division of work and family life between men and women, including the equal sharing of parental leave. Regardless, as the exceptional case in the Nordic region, Denmark currently has no father’s quota, and this despite the strong impact such policy has effectively proven to have on gender equality in take-up of parental leave. While a quota intended for the fathe…
Quality reforms in Danish home care - balancing between standardisation and individualisation
Despite relatively generous coverage of the over-65 population, Danish home help services receive regular criticism in the media and public opinion polls. Perhaps as a consequence, reforms of Danish home care policy for senior citizens have placed a strong emphasis on quality since the 1990s. This reform strategy represents a shift from the welfare state modernisation programme of the 1980s, which built mainly on economic strategies of cost-effic…
Supplemental home care and topping‐up
How does a public service model based on service universalism react to the introduction of market principles of topping up? In a recent so‐called Free Municipality Scheme (an experimental scheme that allowed for greater operational autonomy locally in an effort to reduce state bureaucracy), a number of Danish municipalities were for the first time ever allowed to compete with for‐profit providers of home care in selling supplemental home care ser…
Public/private ownership and quality of care
Development of an internationally accepted definition of reablement
With an ageing society, the demand for health and social care is increasing. Traditionally, staff provide care for their clients rather than with them. In contrast, reablement aims to support people to maximise their competences to manage their everyday life as independently as possible. There is considerable variation between and within countries regarding the conceptual understanding of the approach. This variation affects the ability to evalua…
Caring for Children and Older People in Europe - A Comparison of European Policies and Practice
The study of social care benefits is the Cinderella of welfare state analysis. Little is therefore known about the institutional design of these benefits, nor has much work been carried out as to what analytical frame should be adopted when analysing social care benefits. This article sets out to present a conceptual framework for the comparative understanding of social care benefits in arguing that the study of social care policies benefits from…
Setting time aside for the father
This paper looks at the perspectives of a particular 'stakeholder' in the care/work sharing construction, namely the father, and how his rights to leave are secured in paternity and parental leave legislation in Scandinavia. The paper claims that the ideology and social constructions of the role of the mother and father differ in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Fatherhood and the modern father are important in Sweden, whereas the emphasis is on paren…
Politiques de soutien aux familles en Europe centrale et orientale
Depuis le début de la période de transition, l’offre en matière de crèches et d’écoles maternelles a diminué en termes absolus, notamment celle pour les très jeunes enfants : il y a moins de garderies et les coûts pour les bénéficiaires ont fortement augmenté. Parallèlement, on constate un changement dans la conception de la maternité, là où les systèmes de congés parentaux prolongés renforcent le rôle traditionnel de la femme au foyer. De nombre…
Constructing the Care Consumer
Traditional welfare institutions are challenged by the desire to design our own individual welfare packages. Politically, the response can be to introduce choice in social policy, also from the aim that the pacified welfare client should re-materialise as an active welfare consumer. This paper analyses the development of the form and concept of consumerism in social policy, taking the domiciliary care for the elderly in Denmark as an example. It …
Preferences or institutions? Work—family life opportunities in seven European countries
In her Work—Lifestyle Choices, Hakim argued that attitudinal factors like work—lifestyle preferences are more important than institutions or structures in explaining female employment. Our aim is to study whether we can substantiate Hakim's preference theory or whether we should lay more emphasis on institutional factors. We ask whether there are systematic differences in attitudes to work and family life as proposed by Hakim. To what extent do t…
Care Between Work and Welfare in European Societies
This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed
Gender Equality Revisited – Changes in Nordic Childcare Policies in the 2000s
The Nordic childcare policy model is often reviewed and even recommended internationally for its contribution to gender equality, high female labour force participation and, perhaps more indirectly, to a high fertility rate. Nordic childcare services and parental leave schemes have thus been portrayed in the literature as policies which have managed to facilitate a work–family model of dual earners and dual carers. However, the recent introductio…
Welfare-state change, the strengthening of economic principles, and new tensions in relation to care
Fathers' rights to paid parental leave in the Nordic countries
European Union policy encourages men and women to share parental leave to balance work and family life and promote gender equality in the labor market. A new directive extends parental leave to four months and introduces a quota, so one month is reserved for each parent. This article explores to what extent government-provided, paid parental leave and quotas for fathers could bring about equality in the division of leave between men and women by …
Changing policies, changing patterns of care
Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries
De nordiske lande anses ofte for at være foregangslande inden for ligestillingsområdet. Det er sandt at kvinder generelt har en stærkere position i de nordiske samfund end i resten af verden. Der er en utvetydig vilje i de fleste – eller måske i alle – områder af samfundet med henblik på at fremme og styrke ligestillingen mellem kvinder og mænd. I de senere år er der sket nogle betydelige forandringer i familierne hvor mændene nu i højere grad ta…
Quality reforms in Danish home care - balancing between standardisation and individualisation
Despite relatively generous coverage of the over-65 population, Danish home help services receive regular criticism in the media and public opinion polls. Perhaps as a consequence, reforms of Danish home care policy for senior citizens have placed a strong emphasis on quality since the 1990s. This reform strategy represents a shift from the welfare state modernisation programme of the 1980s, which built mainly on economic strategies of cost-effic…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The Nordic countries are known worldwide for their extensive welfare system and gender equality, which enables both parents to hold jobs, earn money, and care for their children. In this volume, scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as from the United States and the UK, explore the effects of these policies on fatherhood, and how the policies that support it contribute to shaping and influencing the image, role, and practice of fathers in a…
Cross-national Variations in Care and Care as a Labour Market
The main aim of this chapter is to provide contextual cross-national background information on changes in care policies in a selected number of European countries that will be of relevance for the development of the overriding analytical framework of this volume as well as for setting up the grounds for comparison of national case studies. The chapter is divided into three main parts. The first part looks at trends in coverage and expenditure for…
Pressures towards and within Universalism
Within Europe, care policies for children and older people have been, over the last two decades, one of the most dynamic policy areas of welfare state development. Both long-term care (LTC) and early childhood education and care (ECEC) respond to changing needs and demands for care. Ageing populations, labour market participation of women, decline in fertility and changes in family dynamics put pressure on national care systems. Although all coun…
Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the development of parental leave in the Nordic countries in the last decade or so and explain the different roads taken by individual countries in this regard. Focusing on the recent development, mainly on father’s quota, we discuss whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift in some of these countries, away from an emphasis on gender equality to a more traditional family approach, with the mot…
Childcare as a global policy agenda
The chapter by Rostgaard investigates what has been the foundation for the overall idea of childcare as a global agenda across advanced economies, its changing meaning as well as the implementation in national policy. More specifically, it investigates how the ideational influence of seeing childcare as a global agenda has come about as a response to new contextual, scientific and policy realities in the transition to knowledge economies. Further…
Handbook of Family Policy
The Handbook of Family Policy examines how state and workplace policies support parents and their children in developing, earning and caring. With original contributions from 44 leading scholars, this Handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on family policies and family policy research, taking stock of current literature as well as providing analyses of present-day policies, and where they should head in the future.
Chapter 10
The Nordic welfare model is known in the literature for its explicit support of the equal treatment of men and women in both family and gender equality policies as well as its achievements in these policy areas. Policy arguments have to promote gender equality and act in the best interest of the child, ensuring that the child access to care from both parents as well as to early childhood education and care. However, the knowledge of how the Nordi…
Public/private ownership and quality of care
Gender equality
This chapter is about the design of Parental Leave policy and its relationship to leave-taking by fathers and gender equality more generally. The Nordic countries have historically emphasised gender equality in policymaking and have been in the forefront for introducing policies that encourage mothers and fathers to share responsibility for the care of children. Parental Leave is considered to be one such policy as it secures fathers’ rights to p…
Supplemental home care and topping‐up
How does a public service model based on service universalism react to the introduction of market principles of topping up? In a recent so‐called Free Municipality Scheme (an experimental scheme that allowed for greater operational autonomy locally in an effort to reduce state bureaucracy), a number of Danish municipalities were for the first time ever allowed to compete with for‐profit providers of home care in selling supplemental home care ser…
How Different Parental Leave Schemes Create Different Take-Up Patterns
The prevailing gender ideologies in the Nordic countries generally support the equal division of work and family life between men and women, including the equal sharing of parental leave. Regardless, as the exceptional case in the Nordic region, Denmark currently has no father’s quota, and this despite the strong impact such policy has effectively proven to have on gender equality in take-up of parental leave. While a quota intended for the fathe…
Covid-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states
This article examines COVID-19 and residential care for older people during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, comparing a range of countries - Denmark, England, Germany, Italy and Spain - to identify the policy approaches taken to the virus in care homes and set these in institutional and policy context. Pandemic policies towards care homes are compared in terms of lockdown, testing and the supply of personal protective equipment. The compa…
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