Bias Has a Price Tag

There is a kind of bias that kills more women, touches more pregnancies, and operates completely in the open.

What the Word ‘Bias’ Actually Means

The word bias comes from the Old French biais, meaning a slant, a slope, a diagonal cut across the grain of cloth. Like a floor that is not quite level: everything placed on it rolls the same way, not because anyone pushed it, but because the floor was built wrong.

When a tailor cuts fabric “on the bias”, the cut runs …