Marlène Schiappa

Marlène Schiappa (French pronunciation: ​[maʁlɛn ʃjapa], Italian: [ˈskjappa]; born 18 November 1982) is a French politician serving as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex.[1] She previously served as Secretary of State for Gender Equality in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 to 2020.[2][3][4]

Marlène Schiappa
Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship
Assumed office
6 July 2020
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Prime MinisterJean Castex
MinisterGérald Darmanin
Secretary of State for Gender Equality
In office
17 May 2017 – 6 July 2020
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Preceded byLaurence Rossignol
Personal details
Born (1982-11-18) 18 November 1982
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Spouse(s)
Cédric Brugière
(
m. 2009)
Children2 daughters

Education

Schiappa was educated at Lycée Claude-Bernard high school where she earned her Baccalauréat. She studied Geography at the Sorbonne, but dropped out university the first year.[5] She took evening class in communications and earned a bachelor's degree in Communication at University of Grenoble.[5]

Career

In 2007, Schiappa became an assistant in charge of monitoring new media at the Euro RSCG agency, also in 2007 she founded the webzine Les Pasionarias webzine. Shiappa went on to found a web production agency; was the founding president of the blog then social medium Maman travaille (working mothers) (2008). From 2014 to 2017 she held the position of Deputy Mayor of the city of Mans, Delegate to Equality. In 2014 she Co-founded the Movement of French Elected for Equality (MEFE), was Community Advisor of Le Mans metropolis. From 2016–17, Shiappa was delegate to technological innovation and to the economic attractiveness of the territory, and in 2016 acted as an advisor to Laurence Rossignol (Minister of Families, Childhood and Woman's rights) in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

Also in 2016–17, Schiappa was delegate to Département de la Sarthe and Manager of Equality between women and men division in the political pavement La République En Marche!, Member of the national Investiture Committee of La République En Marche!. Since 2017, she has held the position of Secretary of Equality between the women and the men at the Office of the Prime Minister.

Personal life

Schiappa identifies as a sapiosexual.[6]

References
  1. "Gouvernement Castex en direct : Darmanin nommé ministre de l'intérieur, Dupond-Moretti garde des sceaux et Bachelot à la culture". Le Monde.fr (in French). 6 July 2020.
  2. "Marlène Schiappa, une blogueuse militante aux droits des femmes". Lemonde.fr. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  3. Geoffroy Clavel Chef du service politique du HuffPost. "Qui est Marlène Schiappa, la secrétaire d'Etat chargée de l'Egalité entre les hommes et les femmes du gouvernement Édouard Philippe". Huffingtonpost.fr. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  4. 02 minutes (1 January 1991). "Marlène Schiappa, secrétaire d'Etat à l'Egalité homme-femme". Lesechos.fr. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  5. "Marlène Schiappa", Wikipédia (in French), 19 August 2019, retrieved 21 August 2019
  6. Rose, Hilary (12 August 2019). "'Sapiosexual' Marlène Schiappa prefers intelligence to looks? Oh là là". The Times. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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