Irene Greenwood was educated at Perth Modern School from 1913. She married in 1920 and moved to Broome for five years, returning to Perth until 1931 when her husband's work took the family to Sydney until the mid 1930s. Greenwood worked as a broadcaster for the Perth ABC full-time from 1936. From 1947 to 1955 she broadcast a daily session of Woman to Woman on the Whitford Network. Greenwood was an Honarary Life Member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA Branch). Best know as a prominent feminist, she was appointed as a member of the Prime Minister's National Advisory Committee for International Women's Year (1975) and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1977 by the Queen. She has been publicly honoured in a number of other ways including having a State Ship named after her.
