Word: biased
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sara Buel, a third year law student who founded the Battered Women's Advocacy Project, said that the systemic bias in the courts hurt more than just female attorneys...
Abrams said she hopes gender bias in the courtroom will eventually become a form of official misconduct...
Nancy Gertner, a partner in a private Boston law firm, said that the gender bias report's findings confirmed what she had known from personal experience in the state's court system...
...June 1989, nine states had published their task force reports...Every report in every state reported huge gender bias," said Abrams, who co-chairs the Court's gender bias study committee...
...Gender bias in the courts was defined to "include decisions made and actions taken because of preconceived notions" rather than on relevant information, said Abrams. The degree to which "stereotypes affect courtroom practice" is dangerous, she said...