Having become the Swiss army knife of the government, Marlène Schiappa, the former free spirit and emblem of the fight for gender equality, is making a comeback as Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life .

Symbol of a subject that she continues to embody, the faithful of the macronie, media figure of the first term, returns to the government on Monday when Damien Abad, Minister of Solidarity accused of attempted rape, leaves him.

“The Minister of Solidarity is responsible for the DGCS (Directorate General for Social Cohesion).

This means that very directly, the entire communication service for women's rights and gender equality is attached to the Minister of Solidarity.

Is a person who is implicated in several cases of rape (…) entitled to have guardianship over this directorate?

I think the question arises, ”she said last week on BFMTV.

Advocate for government action since 2017

Does this mean that Marlène Schiappa is making her comeback in the role of firefighter in the government?

After positions related to societal themes, she holds for the first time a portfolio related to the economy.

Because she returns to the Social and Solidarity Economy, after having seen her star fade during her stay since the summer of 2020 in Beauvau in the shadow of Gérald Darmanin, as Minister Delegate for Citizenship where she dealt in particular with questions asylum and integration of foreigners.

Two years during which, for example, she had to coordinate the reception of Afghan refugees after the Taliban took power, and that of Ukrainians more recently.

Very active on social networks, subscriber to television sets, the communicator Marlène Schiappa, aged 39, married and mother of two children, has also been a defender of government action since 2017.

Advocate of outspokenness

She was Secretary of State in charge of Equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination between 2017 and 2020, during Macron's first five-year term, the fight which made her emerge as a stateswoman after to have been an activist on the subject.

Follower of outspokenness, quick to step up in the media, she was once identified for her blunders, but her personality also allowed her to popularize her favorite themes, including secularism.

Among the polemics, she suggested for example a few years ago the possibility for young mothers to obtain a CAP Early Childhood thanks to the validation of acquired experience (VAE), which earned her criticism from professionals in the sector seeing it as a "devaluation" of their work.

She also advances the huge rate of 75% of episiotomies in France (against 20% according to the latest official figures at the time) to address the "obstetrical violence" suffered by women, angering gynecologists this time.

"Is this a good situation, Minister?"

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Previously elected from civil society, deputy to the socialist mayor of Le Mans, Jean-Claude Boulard, she was delegate for equality (fight against discrimination, gender equality, monitoring of the LGBT charter).

A graduate in communication, in 2008 she founded the blog “Mom works”, a network of “working mothers” which raises demands around parental equality, in particular the reconciliation of family life and professional life.

Originally from Corsica, Marlène Schiappa grew up in Paris, where she was born on November 18, 1982. “From the age of 13, I lived with my sister at my father's.

We lived in a housing estate and the idea was to make him understand that for us, going to the streets was not the same thing as for him,” she told the press to explain her feminist commitment.

Blogger, community activist and speaker before entering government, Marlène Schiappa is also a prolific author.

His latest book: “Is this a good situation, minister?

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