Sandrine Rousseau
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Sandrine Rousseau | |
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.jpg) Rousseau in 2021 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 9th constituency | |
| Assumed office 21 June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Buon Tan |
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| Born | 8 March 1972 Maisons-Alfort, France |
| Political party | Europe Ecology – The Greens (until 2017; since 2020) |
| Spouse | François-Xavier Devetter (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Poitiers University of Lille |
Sandrine Rousseau (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃dʁin ʁuso]; born 8 March 1972) is a French economist and politician who has represented the 9th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly since 2022. Member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), she has been widely seen as a figurehead of France's MeToo movement against sexual violence, and describes herself as an ecofeminist.[1]
Rousseau previously served as a vice-president of the University of Lille.[2]
Early life
[edit]Rousseau was raised in Nieul-sur-Mer, France, where her father Yves Rousseau was mayor from 2001 to 2008.[3]
Political career
[edit]Rousseau became a candidate in the 2010 French regional elections for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, in third position on the Nord list. Following a merger of the left-wing lists, she was elected in the second round on the united list led by Daniel Percheron. She was appointed vice-president of the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, in charge of Research and Higher Education.
From 2011, Rousseau was part of the EELV national leadership, under chairwoman Cécile Duflot.[4]
In March 2020, Rousseau was elected president of the Conférence permanente des chargés(e)s de mission égalité et diversité (CPED), which is composed of ninety-four public institutions of higher education and research around equality and diversity policies.[5]
In 2021, Rousseau was a candidate for the open primary vote organized by Europe Ecology – The Greens for the 2022 French presidential election.[6] She qualified for the second round but lost to Yannick Jadot.[7] She later joined Jadot’s campaign team[8] but, by March 2022, was asked to leave again after she had expressed strong criticism of the campaign strategy.[9]
During the 2022 French legislative election, Rousseau was elected deputy to the National Assembly for Paris's 9th constituency, as a member of the New Ecologic and Social People's Union.[10] In parliament, she has since been a member of the Committee on Social Affairs.[11]
In 2016, Rousseau was one of several female politicians – including Isabelle Attard, Elen Debost and Annie Lahmer – who made headlines for accusing Green party colleague and MP Denis Baupin of sexual harassment.[12][13] In 2022, she suggested in a TV interview that her colleague Julien Bayou had exhibited “behavior which could break women’s psychological health” and said that Bayou’s former partner had later attempted suicide; the Green Party’s parliamentary group subsequently suspended Bayou from his role as the group’s co-chair, and he later stepped down as secretary as well.[14][15]
In 2021, Rousseau was criticized for being too absent on her university post, because of her participation in the electoral campaign.[16] In 2022 she sparked controversy by proposing that the law make non-participation in household chores a criminal offence.[17]
In August 2022, France’s National Hunting Federation (FNC) filed a complaint against Rousseau after she had stated "that one femicide out of four [was] linked to a hunting weapon.“[18]
On 12 November 2023, she took part in the March for the Republic and Against Antisemitism in Paris in response to the rise of anti-Semitism in France since the start of the Israel–Hamas war.[19]
Publications
[edit]- 2022: Par-delà l'androcène, with Adélaïde Bon et Sandrine Roudaut, Éditions du Seuil
References
[edit]- ^ Angelique Chrisafis (23 September 2021). "'Eco-feminist' shocks French politics in bid for Greens' presidency". The Guardian.
- ^ "Sandrine Rousseau - Université de Lille". pro.univ-lille.fr. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ Masse, Clement (22 September 2001). "Charente-Maritime : les racines de l'engagement politique de l'écologiste Sandrine Rousseau". France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine (in French). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ Présentation des membres du bureau Exécutif national Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), press release of 15 June 2011.
- ^ Communiqué de presse : Sandrine Rousseau élue à la tête de la CPED Conférence permanente des chargés(e)s de mission égalité et diversité (CPED), press release of 26 March 2020
- ^ "Who's who in the 2022 French presidential election". Le Monde.fr (in French). 9 February 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "French Greens narrowly choose MEP Yannick Jadot as presidential candidate". POLITICO. 28 September 2021.
- ^ Sacha Nelken (1 October 2021), Primaire écologiste : Sandrine Rousseau soutiendra finalement Yannick Jadot «sans état d’âme» Libération.
- ^ Alexandre Rousset (4 March 2022), Présidentielle : Sandrine Rousseau exclue de la campagne de Yannick Jadot Les Echos.
- ^ "Elections législatives 2022 : Sandrine Rousseau élue députée dans la 9e circonscription de Paris". Le Monde.fr. 19 June 2022.
- ^ Sandrine Rousseau National Assembly.
- ^ "Realist or radical? French Greens pick presidential candidate". France 24. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ Pierre Lepelletier (25 October 2020), Sandrine Rousseau veut être la candidate des écologistes à la présidentielle Le Figaro.
- ^ Aurelien Breeden and Catherine Porter (21 September 2022), French Left Lawmaker Admits Slapping Wife, and Party Leader Defends Him New York Times.
- ^ Peter O’Brien (26 September 2022), Fresh accusations of violence against women divide France’s left Politico Europe.
- ^ "A l'université de Lille, les « absences » de Sandrine Rousseau déplaisent". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 22 October 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Sandrine Rousseau propose de créer un "délit de non-partage des tâches domestiques"". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ Rémy Dodet (25 August 2022) La Fédération nationale des Chasseurs porte plainte contre Sandrine Rousseau et réclame près de 100 000 euros de dommages et intérêts L'Obs.
- ^ Bajos, Par Sandrine; Balle, Catherine; Bérard, Christophe; Berrod, Nicolas; Bureau, Éric; Choulet, Frédéric; Collet, Emeline; Souza, Pascale De; Doukhan, David (11 November 2023). "Marche contre l'antisémitisme : François Hollande, Marylise Léon, Agnès Jaoui... pourquoi ils s'engagent". leparisien.fr (in French).
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Further reading
[edit]- Porter, Catherine (9 December 2022). "She Came Out of Nowhere, and Now No One in France Can Ignore Her". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
- 1972 births
- Living people
- People from Maisons-Alfort
- French feminists
- Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians
- 21st-century French women politicians
- French women economists
- Ecofeminists
- Members of Parliament for Paris
- Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
- Regional councillors of France
- Politicians from Île-de-France
- University of Poitiers alumni