Recognizing the potential of on-line communication she established training programs to teach women at the university how to use computer technology to network with each other and to further their research goals.
Isaksson joined Seta, in 1978 and fought against the section of the penal code which prohibited public promotion of homosexuality, even though consensual relations among partners was not criminalized.
[3] In a 1981 protest, Isaksson, speaking on behalf of the organization said that the section of the code could "be used to restrict the right of gay people to demonstrate against discrimination".
The newsletters focused on issues faced by women within the network, including employment challenges, legal situations involving lesbian mothers, racism, political extremism and health, particularly the spread of HIV/AIDS.
[10] At the university, Isaksson was promoted to work as an amanuensis, an administrator of a research facility, and then in 1998 became a tenured astronomy librarian at the observatory.
[11] She published Nainen ja Maailmankaikkeus (Woman and the Universe), the first book in the Finnish language about female natural scientists in 1987.
The work collected historical accounts of women in various service branches from countries as far apart as Canada and Yugoslavia over a period of five hundred years.
Most of her work focuses on organizing astronomical information, teaching physics courses, supervising graduate students, and planning astronomy conferences.