underrepresented

adjective un·der·rep·re·sent·ed \ ˌən-dər-ˌre-pri-ˈzen-təd \

|Updated on: 7 Jul 2018

Definition of underrepresented

: inadequately represented

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underrepresentation

play \ˌən-dər-ˌre-pri-ˌzen-ˈtā-shən, -zən-\ noun

Recent Examples of underrepresented from the Web

And while women scientists are underrepresented in real-life labs, not to mention in YA novels, Goldstein gives Maya an impressive cadre of female PhDs in her extended family.

— susan kaplan carlton, BostonGlobe.com, "Meredith Goldstein is growing love in a lab," 22 June 2018
Women in both groups are still underrepresented: 1.2% of Google’s global population are black women, and 1.7% of its global population are latina women, Techcrunch reports.

— natasha bach, Fortune, "Google's Latest Report Shows It Still Hasn't Fixed Its Diversity Problem," 15 June 2018
Ehrman compared boards in Atlanta, Boston, and Portland, Oregon, to the demographics of their service areas and customers and found that in most cases people of color and women were significantly underrepresented. Why does this matter?

— john greenfield, Chicago Reader, "Transit boards overwhelmingly male, whiter than ridership," 22 May 2018
In the 33 years that his show aired on NBC and CBS, female writers and stand-up performers were grossly underrepresented, struggling to make up 10 percent of inclusion, onscreen and off.

— nell scovell, The Cut, "David Letterman Just Can’t Figure Out Why He Never Had Women Writers," 14 May 2018
HxA also found that conservatives today are more underrepresented in college and university faculties than African-Americans.

— christa case bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, "At college decision time, conservatives face tough choices," 23 Apr. 2018
This is because women are woefully underrepresented in most Western medicine.

— hannah steinkopf-frank, RedEye Chicago, "Cannabis wellness network Ellementa lets women talk weed," 19 Apr. 2018
One thing our data mining study doesn’t reveal is why women are so seriously underrepresented.

— alicia shen, Newsweek, "Women in Science: Talent Is Not Gendered, so Why Are Journals Failing Women?," 8 Mar. 2018
Her model shows that these fault lines could be mitigated if players in the underrepresented group happened to be clustered together in similar roles (Latino players sitting together in the bull pen as relief pitchers, for example).

— ben rowen, The Atlantic, "Finding the Formula for Team Chemistry," 15 June 2018

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