Abstract

The rise of descriptive representation after the 2017 quota law invites exploration of the impact on substantive representation. This work classifies the pro-woman statements, distin-guishing those that reproduce gender stereotypes (practical interests) from those that break with their reproduction (strategic interests). The data were collected through semi-struc-tured interviews from a proportional random sample by political party and sex in the last two legislatures (2014-18/2018-22). It was shown that non-sexist statements about wom-en’s interests of a strategic nature increased from 30.4% to 48%. The largest number of these phrases were concentrated in the discourse of the youngest left and center-left depu-ties in 2014-18; expanding to young men and women of the center-right in 2018-22.