How would you address the organizational structure of social service agencies to deliver more effective services?
BC: Within social service organizations, the various dynamics of individualism compounded by privilege and disadvantage gets inserted right into social work practice. In other words, bureaucracy, hierarchy, and systemic inequalities become structured into the way we provide help. For example, there is an unjustifiable discrimination against women. This gender prejudice still lingers within the social services, which is a paradox because social services has so many women working in it. Until recently, the administrators of most social service organizations and schools of social work were male. At the same time, within the social services, just as within the larger society, there are challenges going on continuously against this injustice and the illegitimate privilege that flows from gender prejudice. The women’s movement has taken on the issue of gender inequality and has made alliances with others, such as the labour movement, to press for gender equity. This organizational conflict h
