As a result, age bias has a different edge than racial or sex bias.
Several other clubs have taken the first steps on sex bias.
His vote in another major case two years ago made it easier for states to increase hiring of women without confessing past sex bias.
Indeed, subtle sex bias has influenced the decisions of women who themselves chose not to apply for certain jobs.
But the real issue is not sex bias.
In some communities, parent groups have been formed to address sex bias.
In that post she carried out recommendations intended to rid the state courts of sex bias.
And that increase, the association's leaders say, has made sex bias in corrections systems all the more apparent.
The 23-member panel concluded after an 18-month study that sex bias was "pervasive."
The point, she said, was to examine sex bias within our society.