History has shown that Caribbean women were never satisfied with being on the peripheries of the political arena, and over the years, they have engaged in activism and adopted different kinds of strategies in order to gain entry to the structures of governance. Despite the expansion of scholarship over the years, very little is known about the challenges they face in the attempt to enter into representational politics since they still occupy a statistical minority in the parliaments of the majority of countries across the world. In the Anglophone Caribbean, only four countries so far, have had female Prime Ministers. Still, there is limited knowledge concerning the extent to which female presence within the structures of governance will impact substantive representation especially in light of contemporary research which shows that there is an empirical link between the descriptive and substantive representation of women, by women. Thiscourseis designed to address the gaps and will engage students in a variety of debates on theoretical and socio-cultural issues and how these issues may have helped to determine the gender of governance and subsequently, influence the governance of gender.