[9] Electricity was hardly available in Turin during Strada's time and she would often travel around the city in a horse drawn carriage because automobiles were rare and street lamps were lit with gas.

[10] Due to social constraints of the time it was unlikely for a woman to have an academic career, so she worked alongside her father and younger brother who were both engineers.

[10] She helped design and construct industrial plants, surface water tunnels, mines, railway lines and social housing.

[11] One of the major projects she worked on was the creation of the surface water tunnel 50 metres (160 ft) below a copper mine in Ollomont, Aosta Valley.

[3] On 26 January 1957 engineers Emma Strada, Anna E. Armour, Ines Del Tetto Noto, Adele Racheli Domenighetti, Laura Lange, Alessandra Bonfanti Vietti and the architect Vittoria Ilardi, who first gathered at the Exhibition of the Mechanics in Turin in 1955,[13] founded the Italian Association of Women Engineers and Architects, (Italian: Associazione Italiana Donne Ingegneri e Architetti – AIDIA).

[5][14][15] The "brilliant idea" for the association is credited to Italy's first female graduate in electrical engineering, Maria Artini, who died before AIDIA could be realized.

[5] AIDIA not only organised the congresses that became meeting points for professional concerns about certain issues, but also encouraged international participation in developing an inter-professional and cultural network.

AIDIA has a web page from which they keep promoting the visibility of women engineers’ and architects’ work and share first hand information about their events and projects.