> "She is a nurse" is also not a bias. It's a prior ...
Assuming that lower-status professions are female and higher-status professions are male ("he is a doctor") when translating ungendered words is indeed a bias.
> the system will be right 93% of the time.
And "this person is a doctor, that person is a nurse" will be right 100% of the time.
It's a bias in the sense that it accurately reflects a fact you dislike. It's not a bias in the statistical sense, namely something that causes the answer to be wrong systematically in a particular direction. See my other post here discussing the distinction.
The phrase "this person is a doctor" has a different meaning than "she is a doctor" - "she" and "he" refers to (I'm probably messing up the terminology here) contextually implicit person. "This person" does not.
http://work.chron.com/gender-equality-issues-nursing-careers...
A bias would be if it incorrectly weighted "JOHN" and "nurse", and used the feminine for "John the nurse".