Even though Wu was in her 60s during the 1970s, she still had to foster her graduate students, set up her own lab apparatus, and even compete with male scientists for research funding.
即使在 1970 年代，吳健雄當時已六十多歲，仍要照顧旗下的研究生，要自己製作實驗器材，還要與男性科學家競爭研究經費，對胡玲而言，這些都是連男人也視為畏途的任務。