Who Is Marlene Schiappa? French Minister Poses For Playboy, Talks About Women And LGBTQIA+ Rights

Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 1:43

Even though there is optimism about women's rights in the future across the globe, right now the world looks quite divided on the fact that 'women rights are human rights'!

Recently, Marlene Schiappa, who is a 40-year-old feminist author, and French Minister has landed in trouble for her decision to appear on the notorious magazine cover of Playboy for the 8 April issue. She will appear in the magazine's French edition fully clothed alongside a 12-page interview that she gave on LGBTQ+ issues and women's rights.

"Defending the right of women to do what they want with their bodies: everywhere and all the time," Schiappa wrote on Twitter on Saturday. "In France, women are free. Whether it annoys the retrogrades and hypocrites or not."
The leaked photo that has been circulating online shows Ms Schiappa wearing a white dress along with the headline that read 'A liberated minister'.

Who Is Marlene Schiappa? Early Years, Education, Political Career And Achievements

Marlene Schiappa is the current minister for the social economy and French associations.
Ms Schiappa was born on 18 November 1982 in Paris, Schiappa to Jean-Marc Schiappa and Catherine Marchi.
At the age of 13, she believed that she became a feminist when she realised that, unlike men, she is not able to walk on the streets unharassed.
She is a graduate in new media and communication.
A former blogger and a novelist, she has also published several books on women's rights and feminism such as pregnancy, women's health and challenges of motherhood.
She has two daughters and her husband has also co-written some of her books.
A flagbearer of women's rights, she has openly spoken on women's issues with special attention to social equality and women's empowerment.
In 2010, she also wrote a book that offered sex tips for people who are overweight and on erotica. Her popular titles include Dare to Have a Female Orgasm, Good Girls Don't Swallow and Indecent Marriage.
She used the pseudonym Marie Minelli.
In 2014, Ms Schiappa entered politics for the first time and contested the municipal elections in Le Mans.
She was elected and became deputy mayor, in charge of gender equality.
In 2016, when Emmanuel Macron launched his presidential campaign, Schiappa supported him. She was the youngest cabinet Minister in his first term in office at the age of 34.
In 2017, she was appointed as the nation's first-ever Gender Equality Minister and prior to that she had been a government minister.
She has been a flagbearer of women's rights and has often campaigned for gender equality.
In 2018, she spearheaded a French law that banned cat-calling, following and harassment of females on the streets.

However, she is not the first politician to appear in the publication. Before her, in the 1980s, National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen gave an interview saying he had refused to pay his ex-wife Pierrette alimony, adding: "If she needs any money, all she has to do is clean." His wife hit back by posing half-naked in a maid's costume.