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Fordham University · Women's & Gender Studies

14.3% of Fordham 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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Fordham University: 14.3% 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

38%Left75–91

56%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

16 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

WGSS 3004 · Transnational Feminisms92

Women's & Gender Studies

Transnational feminism first emerged as a critical response to global feminist platforms organized around notions of universal sisterhood and the presumption of women's shared oppression. This course considers how the field of transnational…

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SWGS 6040 · Integrating Human Rights and Justice in Practice84

Women's & Gender Studies

Every person regardless of position in society or geographic location has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety and security, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education. This course introduces students to…

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SWGS 6710 · Advocating for Justice in Child, Youth and Family Policies83

Women's & Gender Studies

This advanced policy practice course builds on the competencies acquired in the foundation year. The course introduces a rights-based approach to child, family, and youth policy practice and advocacy. Using human rights principles, students…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Fordham University Women's & Gender Studies has 16 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Fordham University · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	14.3	—	77	—
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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