Irene Osgood Andrews (January 18, 1879 – February 1963) was an American writer on problems of women in industry.

In 1906 she was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, and factory inspector in Wisconsin.

She became assistant secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation in 1908,[3] working alongside her husband on investigations, including one project on phosphorus poisoning in factory workers.

In the 1920s, she worked on the Legislative Committee of the League of Women Voters LWV in New York.

[7] Andrews often wrote reports and pamphlets, including Review of Labor Legislation of 1909 (1909),[8] Tendencies of the Labor Legislation of 1910 (1911),[9] Working Women in Tanneries, Minimum Wage Legislation (1914),[10] Third Report of the Factory Investigating Committee (1914),[11] The Relation of Irregular Employment and the Living Wage for Women (1915), Preliminary Economic Studies of the War (1918),[12] The Economic Effects of the War upon Women and Children in Great Britain (1918, 1921),[13] The Protection of Maternity an Urgent Need (1920),[14] Childbirth Protection,[15] and Industrial Health (1924).