[4] In 1924, through the agency of Stanislav Špaček,[5] Marie Zubaníková was sent to the USA on an internship scheme by the Masarykovou akademií práce (Masaryk Academy of Labour), the first woman engineer to do so.

[4] Between 1925 and 1929, Marie Zubaníková worked as a designer and structural engineer in Chicago for the Architectural Department at Sears Roebuck.

[4] On 8 January 1928, she was elected vice-president of the American Association of Czechoslovak Engineers in Chicago, where she met its chairman, Ing.

[4] In 1929 Marie Schneiderová-Zubaníková returned to the Czechoslovak Republic, where she was appointed technical advisor to Alice Masaryková, political campaigner and chairwoman of the Czech Red Cross.

[4] In 1938 or 1939 Marie Schneiderová-Zubaníková returned to the US with her husband to avoid the increasing turbulence in Czechoslovakia, and settled temporarily in Bata Shoe Village, in Belcamp, Maryland where there was a large Czech population.