During her tenure, through to 1989, she stepped into the Chair of the Presidium between January and February 1984, as acting head of state of the Tajik SSR.
[1][2] To make ends meet, the family worked on the collective farm, picking cotton and mowing grass, when the girls were not in school.
[1] In 1937, Zaripova was sent by the district authorities[2] to begin her studies at the Women's Pedagogical School in Stalinabad, but as her parents were not able to pay her expenses, she withdrew in 1940 and returned home.
[1] Hired by the Komsomol committee, during the war, Zaripova visited collective farms and distributed rations to the fieldworkers.
[1][2] Six months into her studies in Moscow, she was offered the position by Bobojon Ghafurov to head the Women's Department for the Central Committee of the Party.
She also pressed for the establishment of secondary schools for girls in rural villages, as well as the founding of a medical college in the Shahritus District.
Zaripova often toured remote collective farms and inspected the conditions both inside the Tajik SSR and in the other Soviet Republics.