Noun
underrepresentation (countable and uncountable, plural underrepresentations)
Insufficient or disproportionately low representation.
We are concerned about the underrepresentation of minorities.
“Fortunately, you have the power, and the legal obligation, to rectify the dramatic underrepresentation of these communities in the applicant pool and in the random drawing when you make your determinations regarding the final six commissioners.” Source: Internet
First-past-the-post was re-adopted in Alberta by the dominant party for reasons of political advantage, in Manitoba a principal reason was the underrepresentation of Winnipeg in the provincial legislature. Source: Internet
Before that, each county was represented by one state senator, leading to underrepresentation in the state senate for more urbanized, populous counties. Source: Internet
All southerners complained of underrepresentation in the national legislature. Source: Internet
Scholar Strike Canada has supported calls to defund the police, remove campus police, address underrepresentation of Black and Indigenous faculty and actively recruit, mentor and retain Black, Indigenous and radicalized students. Source: Internet
Even in Iceland, which comes closest and has the ‘highest levels of consciousness about gender equality, violence against women is a problem, and unequal pay is a fact, and underrepresentation of women in decision-making is a fact,’ Mlambo-Ngcuka said. Source: Internet