As an advocate for the ordination of women in the Presbyterian Church (USA), McAfee wrote an article entitled "Second-Class Citizens or Partners in Policy", in which she challenged the church stating, "The crucial question about the place of women in the church is whether or not the church will accept the pattern of the secular society (with which most women are fully content) or will take the lead within it own life demonstrating the truth of ultimate worth, whether it be male or female."