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Present in the world, missing from the room where it counts.
means Existing in smaller numbers than fairness or proportion would predict, especially in positions of power or visibility.
from Built from under (too little) plus represent, from Latin repraesentare, to bring before; the negative sense bloomed in 20th-century civil rights and statistics.
Two flavorsStatistical undercount and social underpresence overlap but differ.
Implied baselineAlways begs the question: under-represented compared to what.
Polite cousinOften the gentler stand-in for excluded or ignored.