In 1972, she was hired by UW President Weaver to provide leadership for improving and expanding educational and employment opportunities for women, minorities and people with disabilities. Marian was highly motivated by the goals she believed in, and one of these was equity. Many of her publications on women?s issues went national and international and she traveled to foreign countries to introduce the achievements made on the University of Wisconsin campuses. She was a member of the teaching faculty of the UW-Madison and Whitewater, lecturing on women?s studies.