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Indiana University-Bloomington · Women's & Gender Studies

9.8% of Indiana University-Bloomington'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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Indiana University-Bloomington: 9.8% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

5%Far left92–100
76%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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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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

GNDR-G 350 · Queer Theory100

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines queer theory, particularly in relation to other intellectual/political movements (post-structuralism, critical race studies, feminism, gay and lesbian studies) which it both borrowed from and challenged. Focus on the ways in which…

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GNDR-G 102 · Sexual Politics83

Women's & Gender Studies

Investigation of cross-cultural meaning for the term “sexual politics,” from Kate Millet’s classic 1970 text to those offered by historians, social scientists, and other critics analyzing political structures, processes and mobilizations…

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GNDR-G 601 · Scientific Practices and Feminist Knowledge83

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines intersections of gender and knowledge focusing on feminist analyses of scientific epistemology and practice, and the implications of feminist theories about the social meaning and gendered construction of scientific research.…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Indiana University-Bloomington 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
Indiana University-Bloomington · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share9.8—51—
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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