[1] She recommended a number of changes to the president of the company; she suggested that the employees should be paid according to their performance and job type, regardless of gender.
Because of the subsequent improvement in productivity Collins was financed, in 1937, to attend the Harvard-Radcliffe Training Course in Personnel Administration.
[2] Dr. Ada Comstock, the president of Radcliffe College when Collins was educated there, sat on a committee that was looking into the idea of recruiting women into the US Navy.
At the end of World War II, Collins was tasked with the demobilization of the WAVES and their reintroduction into civilian life.
[1] In 1946, Collins returned to Washington DC and helped plan the eventual inclusion of females into the Navy;[1] this led to the 1948 Women's Armed Forces Integration Act.
On October 15, 1948,[3] the first female Commissioned Officers of the United States Navy were sworn in; Collins was one of them.
[1] Her next post was to London, United Kingdom, as senior assistant to the Commander in Chief of Naval Forces (Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean).
Returning to the United States in the summer of 1957, she was appointed Chief of Naval Personnel for Women and promoted to the rank of captain.
In 1973, the Navy League of the United States established an award in her honor called the Captain Winifred Quick Collins Awards for Inspirational Leadership presented to a woman officer and an enlisted woman for exceptional leadership and performance in their military duties.