She fought to have women’s colleges accepted as full Oxford colleges, and she increased the intake of science and medical undergraduates at Somerville. Early on, she made sure to employ women as her research assistants and, going flagrantly against custom but forcefully in the direction of fairness, kept their jobs for them if they had children. She served on great and good councils, but also, when flu broke out, carried trays of food to sickly students.
