Yvette Roudy

Yvette Roudy (2012)

Yvette Roudy (born April 10, 1929 in Pessac , Gironde department ) is a former French politician of the Parti socialiste (PS), who was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981 , Minister for Women's Rights between 1985 and 1986 and from 1986 to 1993 and between 1997 and 2002 member of the National Assembly .

Life

Yvette Roudy, who worked as a journalist , was part of the feminist group Choisir la cause des femmes in 1971 with Simone de Beauvoir , Jean Rostand , Christiane Rochefort , Gisèle Halimi and Jacques Monod to defend women who had signed the "Manifesto of 343" in which they admitted to having an illegal abortion.

was elected in the 1979 European elections as a candidate of the Parti socialiste (PS) member of the first European Parliament and belonged to this between July 17, 1979 and June 16, 1981. She belonged to the Socialist Group and was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection from July 20, 1979 to June 16, 1981, and of the delegation to the EEC-Greece Joint Parliamentary Committee between October 25, 1979 and April 13, 1980 .

Then, on May 22, 1981, Yvette Rudy was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy as Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Minister for Women's Rights (Ministre déléguée auprès du premier ministre, ministre des droits de la femme) in his first cabinet and also held this post in the second and third government until July 17, 1984. they also took over the Office of the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Minister for the rights of Women in the Prime Minister on July 20, 1984 Laurent Fabius formed cabinet . By a decree of May 21, 1985, she was promoted to Minister for Women's Rights (Ministre des droits de la femme) and held this post until the end of Fabius' term on March 19, 1986.

In the elections of March 16, 1986, Yvette Rudy was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Parti socialiste (PS) as a member of the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) and, after being re-elected on June 12, 1988, was a member until April 1, 1993. During this time she represented the Calvados department . She acted from June 28, 1988 to April 1, 1993 as Vice-President of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Families and Social Affairs (Commission des affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales) . At the same time, she held between April 29, 1992 and April 1, 1993 as president of a parliamentary special committee to examine three bills on bioethics (Commission spéciale chargée d'examiner les trois projets de loi sur la bioéthique) . At the same time, she was mayor of Lisieux from March 1989 to March 2001 .

In the election of June 1, 1997 , she was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly, to which she was a member until June 18, 2002. She again represented the Calvados department. During this eleventh legislative period, she was secretary of the National Assembly from June 13, 1997 to June 18, 2002. In addition, from November 19, 1999 to June 18, 2002, she acted as Vice-President of the Delegation of the National Assembly for Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women (Délégation de l'Assemblée nationale aux droits des femmes et à l'égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes) . As the successor to her constituency, she proposed Clotilde Valter , but she failed in the election on June 9 and 16, 2002 .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Entry on Yvette Roudy in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ choisirlacausedesfemmes.org (the year 1977 was incorrectly stated there)
2. ↑ including Roudy himself, Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy, Catherine Deneuve , Marguerite Duras , Brigitte Fontaine, Bernadette Lafont , Violette Leduc, Ariane Mnouchkine , Jeanne Moreau , Marie Pillet (the mother of Julie Delpy ), Marie-France Pisier , Françoise Sagan , Delphine Seyrig , Nadine Trintignant , Agnès Varda , Marina Vlady , Monique Wittig