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Duke · Women's & Gender Studies

26.5% of Duke's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Duke: 26.5% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

GSF245S · Women in Visual Arts, 1400-1800: Theory and History75

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines how social institutions exert social control over girls and women by creating, recreating, and transmitting cultural norms, values, beliefs, and practices. Reveals how these cultural components shape women's and girls' lives…

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GSF227S · Politics of Pandemics73

Women's & Gender Studies

Analyzes ways the production of space in architecture and urban theory also produce images of the ideal bodies supposed to inhabit them. Explores limits of the production of space from standpoint of feminist, queer, and critical race…

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GSF242 · Race, Gender, Class, & Computing72

Women's & Gender Studies

This seminar explores key topics in gender, sexuality, and feminist studies through musical case studies from contrasting cultural contexts. Through analyses of sonic expressive practices (e.g. drag, queer and trans voices, sex and rock,…

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Furthest right

None. Duke Women's & Gender Studies has 13 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Duke · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share26.5—49—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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