In Croatia and throughout the world, women are still underrepresented in government, which undermines the input and output legitimacy of the system. The question arises whether the voters themselves are to blame for this, if they vote for women to a lesser extent in elections due to negative biases towards female candidates. In order to answer that question, an experiment was conducted during this research. While one experimental group evaluated a hypothetical election candidate based on his profile, the other group evaluated a female candidate who had an identical program and differed from the male candidate only in gender. It was shown that, contrary to expectations, the respondents did not have negative biases towards the female candidate. Respondents were equally willing to vote for male and female candidates, and in some cases even preferred female candidates. In addition, respondents assumed that male and female candidates had equal chances to win the elections. The research also examined how the desired characteristics of the candidate are perceived, and found that the respondents described the female candidate with such characteristics to a greater extent than the male candidate. The paper shows that voters do not hold negative biases towards female election candidates, which implies the need to investigate other potential causes of underrepresentation of women in government.