She also introduced innovations such as student councils, parent days, free choice of subject, voluntary education in religion, and vacation colonies for school children.

[3][4] Described as a liberal and updated character with modern progressive views, she was also active in politics, the public debate and reform.

She expressed her liberal views regarding religion as a speaker, and published a work on this issue: Skolans ställning till religionsundervisningen i Sverige och andra länder (The Position of the School regarding the teaching of Religion in Sweden and other nations).

The Hammarskjöld suggestion aroused anger among women's rights activists, who formed a support group for the Lindhagen motion.

She wrote the first public appeal to the women of Sweden to form a suffrage movement in the press, and she organized the rules of the association.

She had a very good relation to her vice chairperson, Signe Bergman, and was respected for her ability to, though personally a liberal, maintain the political neutrality of the association.

In 1911, when the suffrage movement was forced to make a political stand against the Conservatives, because their party was by then the only one to oppose women suffrage, the conservative Lydia Wahlström stepped down as chairperson: it was because of the respected ability to be neutral that Whitlock was elected for her second term in office as chairperson in 1911.

In 1905, she co-founded Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem with Ina Almén, a cooperative association which attempted to ensure better food quality.