underrepresentation
underrepresentation — 名詞
1. the state in which a group makes up a much smaller share of an institution or pr
代表性不足
特定群體在機構或領域中人數比例偏低
the state in which a group makes up a much smaller share of an institution or profession than it does of the general population — for example, if women are half the population but only a tenth of company directors, they face underrepresentation
Dr. Okonkwo's review of twelve London hospitals revealed a stark underrepresentation of Black consultants in senior surgical posts.
Okonkwo 醫師對倫敦十二家醫院的審查顯示，資深外科職位中黑人顧問醫師的代表性嚴重不足。
collocation: underrepresentation of [group] in [field]
Only three of 140 PhD students in Eleni's biology department were Black — an underrepresentation she felt sharply in the lab.
Eleni 的生物系一百四十位博士生中僅三位是黑人——這種代表性不足她在實驗室裡感受格外強烈。
pattern: felt + underrepresentation + [adverb]
Zayd spent three years campaigning against the underrepresentation of working-class students at top law schools.
Zayd 花了三年時間抗爭頂尖法學院勞工階級學生代表性不足的問題。
Why did the underrepresentation of women in engineering persist, Indra wondered, when half the graduating class was female?
Indra 納悶，工程領域的女性代表性不足為何持續存在，明明畢業生中有一半是女性？
The underrepresentation of disabled athletes in national team funding led the sports council to rewrite its selection rules.
殘疾運動員在國家隊經費分配上的代表性不足，促使體育委員會重寫選拔規則。
- insufficient representation
a more direct but wordier alternative, common in formal writing
- lack of diversity
broader and less precise; can refer to any absence of variety, not just numerical imbalance
- numerical imbalance
neutral and statistical; lacks the social-justice connotation of 'underrepresentation'
- overrepresentation
the opposite condition, where a group's presence exceeds its population share
- proportional representation
the ideal state where each group's presence matches its share of the wider population
文法句型
underrepresentation of [group] in [domain]
用法筆記
Typically used in formal writing about social issues, demographics, or institutional composition. Uncountable; most often appears in the pattern 'underrepresentation of [group] in [domain]'.