No women were included in the five-person panel at a 2012 hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on birth control access. This demonstrates that even when women have descriptive representation, they lack ______ representation.

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Substantive representation refers to the advocacy of groups' interests and needs in the legislative process, which in this context means that even though women may be represented in numbers (descriptive representation), their specific interests and needs, such as those related to birth control access, were not being advocated for or addressed in this hearing.

No Women Were Included in the Five-Person Panel at a 2012