 She went on to complete a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California, Berkeley in 1933, and was the 6th woman ever to do so.Brady went on to a long career in government working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Labor where she was the chief of the cost of living division from 1944 to 1948, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics where she was the chief of division of prices and cost of living in 1953.She returned to academia as a professor in 1956 at the University of Chicago, was chairman of the graduate group in economic history from 1964-1970 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.