She had long sparred with her supervisors in the Reagan administration, at one point refusing to remove a poster of Che Guevara from the wall in her office.
The year before, an anonymous article in the magazine Conservative Digest had described her program as "a network of openly radical feminists," and four of Wolfe's co-workers were fired at the same time as she was.
[1][3] Wolfe was an early advocate for women affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis, and in 1989 she co-authored an influential report on how the SAT discriminated against female and non-white students.
[1][2][3][4] In addition to her influential efforts on HIV/AIDs and college admission exams, her work at the policy organization included projects on diversity in the workplace, reproductive rights, and violence against women.
[3] Wolfe fought against the euphemistic couching of "sexism" and "racism" as "gender" or "discrimination", saying "I resist the softer terms like 'diversity,' which is almost meaningless in the context of ending oppression.