Germaine Poinso-Chapuis

Germaine Poinso-Chapuis
Germaine Poinso-Chapuis in 1947
Minister for Public Health and Population
In office
November 1947 – July 1948
Preceded byRobert Prigent
Succeeded byPierre Schneiter
Personal details
Born6 March 1901
Marseille
Died20 February 1981
Marseille
NationalityFrench
Political partyPopular Republican Movement
Domestic partnerHenri Poinso
OccupationLawyer

Germaine Poinso-Chapuis (6 March 1901, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône – 20 February 1981[1]) was a French politician.[2] She was the first woman to hold a Cabinet-level post in the French government.[3] Her political convictions have been characterized as bearing the influence of both Catholic and feminist traditions.[4]

  1. ^ "Germaine POINSO-CHAPUIS" (in French). Assemblee Nationale de France. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  2. ^ Gehler, Michael; Wolfram Kaiser (2004). Christian democracy in Europe since 1945. Routledge. p. 90. ISBN 0-7146-8567-4.
  3. ^ Current Biography Yearbook. Vol. 10. H W Wilson. 1949. p. 499.
  4. ^ Antomarchi, V (1998). "Germaine Poinso-Chapuis : une politique familiale entre catholicisme social et féminisme = Germaine Poinso-Chapuis: a family policy between social catholicism and feminism". Recherches et prévisions (in French). 53: 45–58. doi:10.3406/caf.1998.1827. ISSN 1149-1590.

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