ABSTRACT
Traditionally the sex of our representatives was not deemed to matter. In her seminal work on representation Hanna F. Pitkin declared that the concept of representation did not mean descriptive representation: it meant ‘acting for’.1 As long as the representative acted for the represented – ‘the represented must be somehow logically prior; the representative must be responsive to him rather than the other way around’2 – it did not seem to matter who the representative was.3
