ייצוג תיאורי, מכסות ושוליות מרובה: המקרה של נשים חרדיות בישראל

In 2013, Before the Israeli elections for the Israeli parliament, a new Facebook page was created by Ultra-Orthodox women named ”Not Represented, Not Voting“. For the first time in Israel’s history, Ultra-Orthodox women called out not to vote to the Ultra-Orthodox parties at the Israeli parliament if they didn’t include women. This article, which is based on semi structured depth interviews with 15 Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel, is trying to examine the perspective of a minority group of women, politically represented by men,by looking at the case of Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel.In addition, the article will examine whether a minority group of women can feel rightly represented only by other women from the same minority group, or whether men from that same group or women outside of this group can represent them just as well? The article will close with a discussion about whether gender quotas will help to boost the number of female representatives from minority groups inside the parliament generally, and from Ultra-Orthodox groups in Israel specifically.The research findings are that the intersectionality of Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel and their unique needs are the reasons for their demand of a descriptive representation in the parliament. This representation would be reflected by Ultra-Orthodox women representing Ultra-Orthodox women inside the Ultra-Orthodox parties, and not inside the secular parties and not by Ultra-Orthodox men or by secular women. Another conclusion is that intersectionality has a direct influence on their demand for a descriptive representation and therefore we can argue that when the intersectionality is higher, so does the demand for descriptive representation