Sandrine Rousseau

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Sandrine Rousseau
Rousseau in 2021
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 9th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2022
Preceded byBuon Tan
Personal details
Born (1972-03-08) 8 March 1972 (age 52)
Europe Ecology – The Greens (until 2017; since 2020)
SpouseFrançois-Xavier Devetter (divorced)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Poitiers
University of Lille

Sandrine Rousseau (born 8 March 1972) is a French economist and politician who has represented the

Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), she has been widely seen as a figurehead of France's MeToo movement against sexual violence; she describes herself as an ecofeminist.[1]

Rousseau previously served as a vice-president of the University of Lille.[2]

Early life

Rousseau was raised in Nieul-sur-Mer, France, where her father Yves Rousseau was mayor from 2001 to 2008.[3]

Political career

Rousseau became a candidate in the

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

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

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]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Angelique Chrisafis (23 September 2021). "'Eco-feminist' shocks French politics in bid for Greens' presidency". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Sandrine Rousseau - Université de Lille". pro.univ-lille.fr. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. Europe Ecology – The Greens
    (EELV), press release of 15 June 2011.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ "Who's who in the 2022 French presidential election". Le Monde.fr (in French). 9 February 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. ^ "French Greens narrowly choose MEP Yannick Jadot as presidential candidate". POLITICO. 28 September 2021.
  8. ^ Sacha Nelken (1 October 2021), Primaire écologiste : Sandrine Rousseau soutiendra finalement Yannick Jadot «sans état d’âme» Libération.
  9. ^ Alexandre Rousset (4 March 2022), Présidentielle : Sandrine Rousseau exclue de la campagne de Yannick Jadot Les Echos.
  10. ^ "Elections législatives 2022 : Sandrine Rousseau élue députée dans la 9e circonscription de Paris". Le Monde.fr. 19 June 2022.
  11. National Assembly
    .
  12. ^ "Realist or radical? French Greens pick presidential candidate". France 24. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  13. ^ Pierre Lepelletier (25 October 2020), Sandrine Rousseau veut être la candidate des écologistes à la présidentielle Le Figaro.
  14. New York Times
    .
  15. ^ Peter O’Brien (26 September 2022), Fresh accusations of violence against women divide France’s left Politico Europe.
  16. ^ "A l'université de Lille, les « absences » de Sandrine Rousseau déplaisent". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  17. ^ "Sandrine Rousseau propose de créer un "délit de non-partage des tâches domestiques"". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  18. L'Obs
    .

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