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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

70%Left75–91

30%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

20 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

· Topics in Queer Studies85

Women's & Gender Studies

Develops critical understanding of queer theory through foundational and contemporary texts and other media forms. Examines relationships between queer theory and other social and cultural theories that probe and critique power, privilege,…

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· Sexual and Gender Identities in the Modern United83

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 Arts83

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 subjects

None. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's & Gender Studies has 20 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	31.0	—	42	—
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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