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The word 'underrepresented' is correct and can be used in written English
It means being represented by a small or insufficient number or percentage. Example: Women are often underrepresented in leadership positions in the corporate world.
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Opposed to Sparshott's view of the history of dance philosophy is Julie Van Camp, a philosopher who agrees that dance is underrepresented in philosophical aesthetics but who denies that it is has been quite as underrepresented as Sparshott claims.
Davies has "white, working-class" constituents who are underrepresented at the BBC.
Further compounding the issue is that marginalised groups do not have equal opportunities when it comes to political participation and are underrepresented in political decision-making within the legislative, executive and judicial authorities at all levels.
Whether or not this constitution is agreed upon, a new electoral system, relying on proportional representation for provincial lists, should ensure that Sunni Arabs, underrepresented in today's parliament because of their mass stay-away in January's general election, will have a stronger voice.The document to be voted on has flaws.
Meanwhile men are rising through the ranks as qualifications gained long ago fade in importance and personality, ambition and experience come to matter more.The last bastionFor a long time it was said that since women had historically been underrepresented in university and work, it would take time to fill the pipeline from which senior appointments were made.
Women, who are still underrepresented in the workforce, tend to do their own housework rather than outsource it, and many men are do-it-yourself enthusiasts.There is little doubt that long-term unemployment would have caused considerably more political uproar had the Federal Employment Agency not been there to smooth things over.
American forces still share intelligence across the board, but have shifted many of their best people and units to Afghanistan.In particular, the Sunnis are still underrepresented within the intelligence services.
Women are concentrated in teaching, health care, clerical work, social care and sales; they are underrepresented in manual and production jobs, maths, physics, science and engineering and in managerial jobs, particularly at the senior end.
If the turnout in the referendum is anything to go by, the Sunnis will do very well in parliamentary elections scheduled for December 15th, thus putting them in a better position to negotiate than they were this year, heavily underrepresented in parliament.
The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.
There is a relationship between population growth and productivity growth, but it is skill dependent, and the skills upon which it depends are very underrepresented in the migratory flows from the coasts to the Sunbelt.
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