Orphan Mina Murray Harker develops skills of shorthand, stenography, train-schedule lilteracy (53, 186), so in ways she's a "New Woman," but she's not sexually advanced and even mocks the "New Woman" (88f), so what is she? Supposedly "She has a man's brain -- a brain that a man should have were he much gifted -- and woman's heart" (234). She acts like a mother to everyone, including Lucy, and as secretary to the group. Is her marriage to Harker truly a shared ignorance, as he proposed?: "Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to share my ignorance? Here is the book" (104).
Her exclusion by the men is a detriment to their success. Overtly Mina cooperates with men, but in a way she has covert commerce with Dracula. The men chase coffins and kill rats while Dracula attacks her. "[He] pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the -- Oh, my God, my God! what have I done?" (288)