ABSTRACT
All over the world, women's under-representation in politics has become a political issue, as this book has abundantly shown. During the last oneand-a-half decades, a large number of countries, although with regional variances, have chosen to introduce electoral gender quotas, an implausible prospect just three decades ago. 'Women' is being constructed as a political relevant category that has the right to representation - in spite of all philosophical and political objections.
