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Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Women's & Gender Studies

31.0% of Massachusetts Institute of Technology'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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 31.0% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

· Race, Culture, and Gender in the US and Beyond: A73

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines the biopsychosocial factors which impact racial-ethnic identity, racial and cultural socialization, and experiences of prejudice, bias, discrimination, and racial microaggressions across gender identities. Reviews topics in…

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· Sexual and Gender Identities in the Modern United72

Women's & Gender Studies

Provides an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Surveys historical approaches to the eld, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and…

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· Gender in the Visual Arts72

Women's & Gender Studies

Not oered regularly; consult department Explores gender and race through interdisciplinary perspectives from lm and visual studies, art history, and performance studies. Provides an overview of methodologies and practices, with an…

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Furthest right

None. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's & Gender Studies has 13 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share31.0—42—
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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