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University of Chicago · Women's & Gender Studies

46.7% of University of Chicago'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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University of Chicago: 46.7% 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

48%Left75–91

41%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

3%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

63 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

GNSE 21400 · Advanced Theories of Gender and Sexuality100

Women's & Gender Studies

Beginning with the fraught legacy of the New Left and the proliferation of "new social movements" such as feminism and gay liberation, this seminar explores the key debates around which gender and sexuality were articulated as tenacious but…

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GNSE 28705 · Literature as Resistance: Reclaiming Italian Margins95

Women's & Gender Studies

Resistance takes on many forms, some more explicit, some more elusive and covert; the act of writing is one of them. How has writing been used as an act of resistance in the Italian social landscape? How does literature present marginalized…

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GNSE 15002 · Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations I90

Women's & Gender Studies

The first quarter of the GNSE Civ sequence offers a historical examination of bodies, sex, and gender. Through a series of readings that include historical primary sources and examples of cultural production from antiquity to the present,…

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Furthest-right subjects

GNSE 26305 · Moral Reasoning Between Church and State: The Case of Abortion30

Women's & Gender Studies

What is the moral reasoning of those inspired by Christianity to overturn Roe v. Wade? Given constitutional blocks on the state's establishment of religion, how do Christians justify legislating religiously-grounded moral beliefs? How do…

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GNSE 22705 · Abortion: Morality, Politics, Philosophy40

Women's & Gender Studies

Abortion is a complex and fraught topic. Morally, a very wide range of individual, familial, and social concerns converge upon it. Politically, longstanding controversies have been given new salience and urgency by the Dobbs decision and…

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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
University of Chicago · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	46.7	—	90	—
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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