Marlène Schiappa

Schiappa attended Lycée Claude-Bernard in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, where she obtained her Baccalauréat ES. She studied Geography at the Sorbonne for a year.[3] She took evening class in communications and earned a bachelor's degree validated by the University of Grenoble.[4]

In 2007, Schiappa started working at the advertising company Euro RSCG, the same year she founded the online magazine "Les Pasionarias". In 2008 she set up a blog for working mothers called "Maman travaille" (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: Letters To My Uterus and Who Are The Rapists.[5] She moved to Le Mans in northwestern France.[6]

In 2014 Schiappa was elected deputy mayor of the city of Le Mans, in charge of gender equality 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 Plafond de mère,[5] a few weeks later he asked her to participate in a conference about gender equality and politics.[6]

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 of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

In 2016–17, Schiappa was delegate to the department of Sarthe in charge of gender equality for La République En Marche! as well as member of its national Investiture Committee.

Schiappa has published more than 28 novels and essays under her name as well as under the pseudonym Marie Minelli.[18]

• 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)

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.[19]

In April 2023, Schiappa caused controversy when she appeared on the cover of the Playboy magazine's French edition, wearing a low-cut white dress [20] while the country is undergoing civil unrest.

Schiappa grew up in a multiracial council estate north of Paris,[5] she is the daughter of Jean-Marc Schiappa, a historian and Catherine Marchi, a Vice-principal in Dijon.[21] Schiappa has two sisters. After a short marriage in 2001, she married Cédric Bruguière in 2006, they have two daughters together.[22] She has a brown belt in judo.[6] In 2015, Schiappa declared she is sapiosexual.[23]

• Castex government