Women's & Gender Studies
Survey of black feminist theories. Content may vary by quarter. Fulfills the major's theory requirement.
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Northwestern University · Women's & Gender Studies
3.0% of Northwestern 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%.
0%70%
Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall
0%Far left92–100
80%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Women's & Gender Studies
Examinations of political participation and counter-public spheres informed by feminist activism and feminist and gender theory.
Women's & Gender Studies
Postcolonial approaches to gender and sexuality studies, including orientalism and diaspora theory. Content varies by quarter; may be repeated for credit with different topics.
Furthest-right subjects
None. Northwestern University Women's & Gender Studies has 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University · Women's & Gender Studies | bias_left_share | 3.0 | — | 33 | — |
| 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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