Anne Phillips (2000), 'Representing Difference: Why Should it Matter if Women get Elected?', in A. Coote (ed.), New Gender Agenda, London: Institute of Public Policy Research, pp. 58-65.

By the beginning of the 20th century, women's right to vote had become one of the major poIitical issues, dividing party from party and women from women as weil as women from men. By the beginning of the 21st century, women's right to vote on equal terms with men has been extended into a wider claim about representation. We do not just demand the equal right to vote and stand for election (a right that might still deliver legislatures composed exclusively of rnen). Many of us have come to believe that fair representation means equal representation, and that elected bodies should be drawn roughly equally from both women and men.