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New York University · Women's & Gender Studies

41.7% of New York University'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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New York University: 41.7% 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
70%Left75–91
30%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
10 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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FramingSubject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

AMST-GA 2305 · Feminist/Queer Theories83

Women's & Gender Studies

This course seeks to provide students with a critical vocabulary through which to theorize sexuality in an intersectional and transnational frame. We will do so by reading recent work within queer and/or critical race studies that situates…

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SCA-UA 723 · Gender in Law83

Women's & Gender Studies

Identical to POL-UA 336. The relationship between gender politics, legal theory, and social policy. Studies legal constructions of gender identities. Analyzes major debates in feminist legal theory. Addresses sex discrimination in the…

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SCA-UA 9869 · Gender and Sexuality in France (in French)82

Women's & Gender Studies

This course introduces students to the history, sociology, and anthropology of women, feminism, and of gender and sexuality in contemporary France from the 19th century to the present. Interdisciplinary in approach, the course draws on…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. New York University Women's & Gender Studies has 10 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
New York University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share41.7—12—
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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