Career
She was one of the first women to be elected into the Dutch parliament. Groeneweg was a teacher in Rotterdam. She was active in the work for people"s education, and also for gender equality, although she did not participate in separate women"s groups but preferred to work from within the party.
She was also active within the temperance union and the pacifist movement.
In 1918, when the first elections after women"s suffrage was held, she was elected to parliament as the first woman.