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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

6%Far left92–100

52%Left75–91

37%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

52 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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Framing Subject

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

FEMGEN 265 · Comparative Methodologies in Black Sexuality, Queer, and Transgender Studies97

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 225 · Women and Political Leadership in Global Perspective94

Women's & Gender Studies

Women's political rights, or the rights to elect and be elected to political office, are recognized nearly everywhere. Despite widespread legal recognition of women's political rights, women's presence and influence on formal politics…

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FEMGEN 137 · Beauty and Power92

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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Furthest-right subjects

FEMGEN 149 · Technology and Fascism: History of a Paradox (COMM 149F)5

Women's & Gender Studies

In the cultural imagination, technological innovation has often been associated with social progress. But the history of fascism reveals the multitude of ways that technologies have been harnessed by, and have themselves helped shape,…

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FEMGEN 170 · Backlash: Feminism Since 201617

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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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Stanford University · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	47.6	—	82	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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