She was the first woman to be the principal of a New South Wales co-educational high school in 1966.

[1] In 1955 she took a higher position of deputy-headmistress at Fairfield Girls' High School although she was later to note as a more active member of the New South Wales Teachers Federation that this was effectively a one way journey.

She had a more senior position but women were not allowed to be in authority in a boys or mixed school.

She had moved an amendment to Lucy Woodcock and Vera Leggett's resolution at the New South Wales Teachers' Federation in 1951.

The resolution on equal pay was changed to add the additional words of "and opportunity".