After having completed her education, she returned to Aden, where she was employed as director of Ihsan Allah Hotel, as manager of the Al-Baath Printing Press, and as a professor of Arabic languages and Islamic law at the University of Aden.
In 1956 the Adeni Women's Club engaged in favor of unveiling on the initiative of Radhia Ihsan.
When women were stopped from attending the concert of the popular Egyptian singer Farid al-Atrash in Aden, the club on the initiative of Radhia Ihsan arranged a demonstration against the veil - and thus against gender segregation - in Aden.
[1] During the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, she held several important posts as a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party.
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