Democratic institutions work to promote equal suffrage based on universal human rights, making it the most representative institution protecting and promoting minorities. Structural barriers continue to limit women’s options through discriminatory laws and institutions leading to capacity gaps with disparity between women and men. However, other indicators of equality such as cultural, socioeconomic, and political variables should be taken into consideration when assessing women’s representation. The UN General Assembly argues that “women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political space, often as a result of discriminatory practices and laws, attitudes and gender stereotypes, low levels of education, lack of access to healthcare and a disproportionate effect of poverty on women”. This chapter serves as the foundational platform of knowledge for investigating the concept of on behalf of. It focuses on building a conceptual understanding of representation and its adoption into the international development agenda following the implementation of gender quotas as a conduit to change in power relations regarding the status of women. Existing research highlights the importance of studying women as it provides opportunities to check leadership and political theories derived exclusively from and by men. Utilizing “gender in politics” to facilitate the analysis and enhance the understanding of women’s political leadership, this chapter serves as a theoretical review of political representation in society at large through a historical analysis of the understanding of women’s representation as part of the larger international development framework of the post-war neo-liberal agenda. As part of the constructivist lens to examine the interaction between human experiences and behavior-patterns, representation is defined as a mobilizer of women’s agency.