After graduating from McGill University, she began her career as a college professor and spent part of it as a well-known political figure in the women's suffrage movement and later in the Democratic Party of the State of Connecticut.

While serving as a fellow in political economics at the University of Chicago, Chase Going met and eventually married a professor of government there, Edward Woodhouse.

[1] In her early professional career, she was a senior economist at the Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, from 1926 to 1928.

[1] While teaching economics at Connecticut College, Woodhouse began her electoral campaign for the United States Congress.

[2] While in office, she was a political activist for women's advancement in careers beyond education, focusing on combining motherhood and feminism.

[4] She ran for reelection to the Eightieth Congress in November 1946 but was defeated by Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr..

Democrats, like President Harry Truman believed Woodhouse was a valuable link to women voters and encouraged this appointment.

She was also a visiting expert on the staff of General Lucius D. Clay, Allied Military Governor of Germany, in 1948.

[5] As a staunch feminist, Woodhouse regularly contributed to Planned Parenthood and was an early proponent of environmental legislation.

As an early feminist, most of her work centered around women's education, equal opportunity and their professional lives.