Marlène Schiappa (French pronunciation: ​[maʁlɛn ʃjapa], Corsican: [ˈskjappa]; 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, in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) and as Secretary of State for Gender Equality in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe (2017–2020).
Schiappa attended Lycée Claude-Bernard where she obtained her Baccalauréat ES. She studied Geography at the Sorbonne for a year. She took evening class in communications and earned a bachelor's degree validated by the University of Grenoble.
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. She moved to Le Mans in northwestern France.

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