She was employed in her role in Western Australia during a time when women were 'discriminated against', and not allowed to work underground nor drink with their colleagues.

[4] She has served on the board of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, as well as charing the Hearing CRC, and the tech start-up Fishburners.

Woodthorpe was the Chief Executive of AVCAL, which is the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

She has worked in private equity and insurance sectors, as well as technology, healthcare and mining industries.

[7] She has argued that more women are required to be appointed to leadership roles, and specifically, chairing roles, which will allow diverse thinking 'otherwise group think sets in'[8] Woodthorpe has a syndicate within the organisation "Women in Boards" named after her.