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Stanford University · Women's & Gender Studies

47.6% of Stanford 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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Stanford University: 47.6% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

3%Far left92–100
21%Left75–91
74%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
39 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

FEMGEN 265 · Comparative Methodologies in Black Sexuality, Queer, and Transgender Studies94

Women's & Gender Studies

What does it look, sound, smell, taste, feel like to be sexually liberated? Upon what grounds - material, affective, relational - are sexual freedoms cultivated? How might we find pleasures otherwise forestalled by colonialism and white…

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FEMGEN 137 · Beauty and Power88

Women's & Gender Studies

Beauty functions as a form of currency that can grant access, privilege, and possibility. How do European beauty standards collude with patriarchal power to justify social inequalities? This class facilitates weekly discussions that focus…

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FEMGEN 170 · Backlash: Feminism Since 201688

Women's & Gender Studies

As a political movement seeking the liberation of women and sexual minorities from gendered oppression, feminism has always had detractors - and pronounced periods of backlash. But since 2016, and in the long aftermath of Hillary Clinton's…

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Furthest right

None. Stanford University Women's & Gender Studies has 39 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
Stanford University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share47.6—82—
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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