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Grinnell College · Women's & Gender Studies

61.5% of Grinnell 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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Grinnell 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

9%Far left92–100
73%Left75–91
18%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 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

GWS 324 · Critical Race Feminisms92

Women's & Gender Studies

4 credits (Fall or Spring) This course provides an introduction to critical theoretical debates about gender, race, and class in the United States legal system. Students examine legal concepts, structures, and narratives that produce and/or…

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GWS 395 · 01 - Advanced Special Topic: Abolitionist Feminisms90

Women's & Gender Studies

4 credits (Fall) Prisons are among the most rigidly sex-segregated institutions in the United States, and women are the fastest-growing demographic of incarcerated people. How did the prison industrial complex emerge as part of an…

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GWS 495 · 01 & 02 - Senior Seminar: The Feminist Subjunctive84

Women's & Gender Studies

4 credits (Spring) The Feminist Subjunctive: Feminists have developed a rich vocabulary for centering possibility in their work. While they have provided powerful critiques of what has been and is, they have also cultivated concepts and…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Grinnell College Women's & Gender Studies has 11 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
Grinnell College · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share61.5—13—
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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