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In Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What’s Care Got to Do with
It?, Christa Jane Moore and Patricia Gagné argue that the child
welfare system in Kentucky and other states is based on masculine
values that were institutionalized long before women had the right
to vote, hold public office, or have a voice in public law and
policy. The authors draw on feminist and organizational theories
and base their arguments on primary qualitative data and secondary
statistics to demonstrate that, historically and today, the efforts
of care workers in the child welfare system are stymied by a highly
bureaucratic child welfare system that demands focus on metric
outcomes. Throughout the work the authors argue for reforms—more
feminized orientations that hearken back to the earliest extensions
of community-centered care for those most vulnerable, especially
children with protective needs.
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