Marlène Schiappa

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Marlène Schiappa (French pronunciation:

Ultimately, Schiappa was sacked from government in July 2023 as part of a cabinet reshuffle, a dismissal linked to the ongoing political scandal surrounding the "Marianne Fund" to combat Islamist extremism, a fund she set up as junior minister in 2021, and whose handling came under public and parliamentary scrutiny in 2023.

Education

Schiappa attended

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.^[6] She moved to Le Mans in northwestern France.^[7]

Political career

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,^[6] a few weeks later he asked her to participate in a conference about gender equality and politics.^[7]

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.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016–17, Schiappa was delegate to the

In 2017, Schiappa became Secretary of State for Gender Equality attached to the Prime Minister.^[8]

In 2018, Schiappa successfully introduced a law to deter predatory remarks and street harassment, such as wolf-whistling.^[9][10] In 2018, she 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.^[11]

On the eve of International Women's Day in 2018, Schiappa appeared, alongside Roselyne Bachelot among others, in a performance of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues at the Bobino theater in Paris.^[12]

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 the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "so that his death does not deny his victims the justice they are entitled to".^[13][14]

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 "

During the COVID-19 pandemic in France, in September 2020, Schiappa announced that foreign health workers would be fast-tracked to obtain French citizenship.^[18]

Works

Schiappa has published more than 28 novels and essays under her name as well as under the pseudonym Marie Minelli.^{[citation needed]}

• 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.^[19]

In April 2023, Schiappa caused controversy when she appeared on the cover of the