She taught school in both Costa Rica and Panama and wrote articles for newspapers and magazines criticizing both national and international political policies.

When she returned from exile in Panama, she worked as a housing advocate for poor families in the southern neighborhoods of San José.

During the first administration of Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno she founded the Casa del Niño (House of Children) and co-founded the Temperance League.

[3] In May 1943 Rodríguez helped organize the largest parade of protest against the reform of the electoral law for the Legislative Assembly.

She joined the feminist movement there and worked as a Spanish teacher in the Canal Zone and also taught English at the National Institute.

[1] When she was able to return to Costa Rica in the first part of the 1970s,[1] Rodríguez began working for the National Institute of Housing and Urbanism (INVU).