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University of Pennsylvania · Women's & Gender Studies

38.8% of University of Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania: 38.8% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

8%Far left92–100
70%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
40 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

GSWS 0500 · Introduction to Disability Studies: Form, Text, and Practices94

Women's & Gender Studies

This first year seminar fuses disability studies, queer theory, Black feminist theory, visuality studies, film theory, and disabled artistic practices. Centering the praxis of disability justice, this class asks students to think about…

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GSWS 1500 · Introduction to Disability Studies: Form, Text, and Practices94

Women's & Gender Studies

Introduction to Disability Studies: Form, Text, and Practices is a class that fuses disability studies, queer theory, Black feminist theory, visuality studies, film theory, and disabled artistic practices. Centering the praxis of disability…

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GSWS 3100 · Politics of Political Writing: From92

Women's & Gender Studies

The Politics of Political Writing: From "We, the People" to "Power to the People" is a literary study and research course charting the development of libratory politics, aesthetics and subjectivities in response to colony, capital and…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Pennsylvania Women's & Gender Studies has 39 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
University of Pennsylvania · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share38.8—67—
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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