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Davidson College · Women's & Gender Studies

61.5% of Davidson College'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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Davidson College: 61.5% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

24%Far left92–100
57%Left75–91
19%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
21 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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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

GSS 394 · Latinx Sexual Dissidence and Guerilla Translation (=LAS 394)100

Women's & Gender Studies

Please email Melissa Gonzalez ( megonzalez@davidson.edu ) if you are interested in this course. Instructor González Despite local differences and sociocultural contexts, there are also remarkable convergences in subcultural minority…

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GSS 435 · Brown, Black, and Blue: Queer of Color Critiques of Policing and Prisons100

Women's & Gender Studies

Instructor Horowitz The United States incarcerates its citizens at a higher rate than any country on earth. Although it comprises only 5% of the world's population, it is home to 25% of the world's prisoners-a population that is…

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GSS 348 · Femme Theory and Performance94

Women's & Gender Studies

Instructor Staff As an unconventional expression of gender identity and performance, this course will examine femme formations and cultural productions as a form of patriarchal-masculine resistance. With its discursive origins in lesbian…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Davidson College Women's & Gender Studies has 21 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
Davidson College · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share61.5—26—
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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