She joined the staff of the St Cyres School in the Vale of Glamorgan in 1960 and rose to the position of deputy head teacher.
Jones gained the reputation as "an uncompromising" champion of girls' education and rose to the position of deputy headteacher, a distinction that few woman earned in comprehensive schools of the 1980s.
[1] She encouraged young girls to study science and mathematics in an effort to combat sexism in the education system and fostered art and music appreciation.
She campaigned through the Vale of Glamorgan Labour Party, serving on its general committee and the executive, and argued for women's views to be heard to promote equality.
[2] Eight years later, she was one of 60 feminists selected for interview by the British Library for its Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project to document activist's memories of seeking political and social equality during the 1970s and the 1980s.
Jones became unwell after returning from a meeting in London to prepare for an international conference of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and died of a heart condition on 16 August 2014.
The family relocated to Wales in 1960 as Hugh had become the head of transport logistics for the multinational chemical company Dow Corning.