Her father was a longtime socialist, glazier and decorator, and her mother had made knitwear.
She started a doctorate but had to abandon it as her supervisor that it unbelievable that a woman would try and get a Ph.D. while she had a child to care for.
[6] In 1990, Gill Hague and Ellen Malos founded a Violence Against Women Research Group.
[7] In 2019, Professor Hague was appointed a CBE for her contribution to combating violence against women.
[5][10] In 1958, she married fellow socialist John Malos, an Australian of Greek heritage.