Marlène Schiappa (, ; born 18 November 1982) is a French writer and politician who served as
Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the
Minister of the Interior
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, in the
government
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of
Prime Minister
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Jean Castex
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(2020–2022) and as
Secretary of State for Gender Equality in the
government
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of
Prime Minister
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Édouard Philippe
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(2017–2020).
Education
Schiappa attended
Lycée Claude-Bernard
The lycée Claude-Bernard is a French State school, public school opened in 1938, both a collège and a lycée. It is located at 1, avenue du Parc-des-Princes in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and bears the name of French doctor Cla ...
in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, where she obtained her
Baccalauréat ES. She studied Geography at the
Sorbonne
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* Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities.
*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
*one of its components or linked institution, ...
for a year.
She took evening class in communications and earned a
bachelor's degree
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validated by the
University of Grenoble
The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...
.
Professional career
In 2007, Schiappa started working at the advertising company
Euro RSCG, the same year she founded the
online magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer mag ...
"Les Pasionarias". In 2008 she set up a blog for working mothers called "" (Mummy works), following the blog success she set up a support network for working mothers to put together proposals for changes in politics. After the birth of her first daughter, she left advertising and began writing novels on the theme of motherhood and feminism, some of the most successful books were: and .
She moved to
Le Mans in northwestern France.
Political career
In 2014 Schiappa was elected deputy mayor of the city of
Le Mans, in charge of
gender equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...
and
discriminations, a position she held until 2017. In 2015 she met Emmanuel Macron, then minister of the economy, at a technology event, gifting him her book ,
a few weeks later he asked her to participate in a conference about gender equality and politics.
In 2014 she co-founded the Movement of French Elected Officials for Equality (MEFE). From 2016 to 2017, Shiappa became delegate advisor to technological innovation and economic attractiveness of the territory. In 2016 she also served as an advisor to
Laurence Rossignol (Minister of Families, Childhood and Woman's rights) in the
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
of
Prime Minister
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Manuel Valls
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (, , ; born 13 August 1962) is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hol ...
.
In 2016–17, Schiappa was delegate to the
department of
Sarthe
Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the '' Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It ha ...
in charge of gender equality for
La République En Marche! as well as member of its national Investiture Committee.
Secretary of State for Gender Equality
In 2017, Schiappa became
Secretary of State for Gender Equality attached to the
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
.
In 2018, she successfully introduced a law to deter predatory remarks and
street harassment, such as
wolf-whistling
A wolf whistle is a distinctive two-note glissando whistled sound made to show high interest in or approval of something or someone, especially at someone viewed as physically or sexually attractive. Today, a wolf whistle directed at a person is ...
. In 2018, Schiappa proposed a change to the
French civil code to introduce a ban on corporal punishment; the bill called "anti-smacking bill" in the media was approved on 30 November 2018.
On the eve of
International Women's Day in 2018, Schiappa appeared, alongside
Roselyne Bachelot
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (née Narquin; born 24 December 1946) is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) and as Minister of Soli ...
among others, in a performance of
Eve Ensler's ''
Vagina Monologues
''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores con ...
'' at the
Bobino
Bobino at 20 rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse area of Paris ( 14th arrondissement), France, is a music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th century French music perform there.
During its long history it was also ...
theater in Paris.
In 2019, amid revelations of the
Jeffrey Epstein affair, Schiappa and fellow cabinet member child welfare minister,
Adrien Taquet called for an investigation into the activities in France of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein "so that his death does not deny his victims the justice they are entitled to".
In November 2019, Schiappa proposed that foreigners convicted of sexual crimes and violence against women would be deported. This proposal was criticised by some feminists who called it "
feminationalism
Femonationalism, sometimes known as feminationalism, is the association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, especially when having xenophobic motivations.
The term was originally proposed by the researcher Sara R. Farris to r ...
" and unequal punishment based on nationality, and also by a legal expert who said that such measures already existed since 1970 for serious crimes including the worst sexual crimes.
Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship
On 6 July 2020, Schiappa was appointed
Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the
Minister of the Interior
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
, in the
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
of Prime Minister
Jean Castex
Jean Castex (; born 25 June 1965) is a French politician who was the country's Prime Minister from 3 July 2020 to 16 May 2022. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) until 2020, when he joined La République En Marche! (LREM). Castex served f ...
.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic in France, in September 2020, Schiappa announced that foreign health workers would be fast-tracked to obtain French citizenship.
Works
Schiappa has published more than 28 novels and essays under her name as well as under the pseudonym Marie Minelli.
* ''J’aime ma famille'' (2010)
* ''Osez l'amour des rondes'' (2010)
* ''Maman travaille, le guide'' (2011)
* ''Je reprends le travail après bébé'' (2012)
* ''Le Dictionnaire déjanté de la maternité'' (2013)
* ''Éloge de l’enfant roi'' (2013)
* ''Les 200 astuces de Maman travaille'' (2013)
* ''Le Guide de grossesse de Maman travaille'' (2014)
* ''Pas plus de 4 heures de sommeil'' (2014)
* ''Sexe, mensonges et banlieues chaudes'' (2014)
* ''J’arrête de m’épuiser'', with Cédric Bruguière, (2015)
* ''La Seule Chose à briser, c'est le silence'' (2015)
* ''Plafond de mère'', with Cédric Bruguière, (2016)
* ''Marianne est déchaînée'' (2016)
* ''Lettres à mon utérus'' (2016)
* ''Ensemble contre la gynophobie'' (2016)
* ''Femmes de candidats'' (2017)
* ''Où sont les violeurs ? Essai sur la culture du viol'' (2017)
* ''Les Lendemains avaient un goût de miel'' (2017)
* ''La Culture du viol'' (2018)
* ''Le Deuxième sexe de la démocratie'' (2018)
* ''Si souvent éloignée de vous : lettres à mes filles'' (2018)
* ''Une et indivisible : L'Urgence de défendre la République'' (2019)
* ''Entre toutes les femmes : Onze rencontres exceptionnelles'' (2020)
* ''Les Droits des femmes face aux violences'' (2020)
Controversy
In early 2023, an investigation by two French news outlets accused the Fonds Marianne, an anti-radicalism fund Schiappa set up in 2021 to promote French Republican values and fight online extremism and that she supervised, of very lax oversight.
In April 2023, Schiappa caused controversy when she appeared on the cover of the ''
Playboy
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'' magazine's French edition, wearing a low-cut white dress while the country is undergoing
civil unrest
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.
Personal life
Schiappa grew up in a multiracial council estate north of Paris,
she is the daughter of Jean-Marc Schiappa, a historian and Catherine Marchi, a
Vice-principal
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in
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
.
Schiappa has two sisters. After a short marriage in 2001, she married Cédric Bruguière in 2006, they have two daughters together.
She has a
brown belt in
judo
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
.
In 2015, Schiappa declared she is
sapiosexual.
See also
*
Castex government
The Castex government (French: ''Gouvernement Castex'') was the forty-second government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 3 July 2020 and headed by Jean Castex as Prime Minister under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. It was dissolved on 1 ...
References
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1982 births
Living people
Politicians from Paris
French people of Corsican descent
21st-century French women politicians
Women government ministers of France
French women's rights activists
La République En Marche! politicians
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Members of the Borne government
Sapiosexual people