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Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Women's & Gender Studies

18.8% of Rutgers University-New Brunswick'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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Rutgers University-New Brunswick: 18.8% 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

48%Left75–91

41%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

44 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

01:988:261 · Resisting Petrocapitalism: Oceanians against Climate Collapse96

Women's & Gender Studies

Analysis of how literary works of the Pacific Islands' Indigenous activists across Oceania denounce the entanglement of capitalism, imperialism, and environmental crises and use their strategic position at the heart of the global fluxes of…

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01:988:447 · Gender-Based Violence as Human Rights Violations: Histories and Trajectories92

Women's & Gender Studies

Grasp key concepts such as structural and interpersonal violence, sexism, heterosexism, heteropatriarchy, privilege and oppression, intersectionality, and decoloniality, through multi-disciplinary perspectives. Explore the histories,…

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01:988:101 · Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality83

Women's & Gender Studies

Introductory survey examining key concepts and themes in women's and gender studies, including: body image and media, class, feminisms, gender/sex, globalization and neoliberalism, intersectionality, patriarchy and privilege, race,…

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Furthest-right subjects

01:988:410 · Debt, Crisis, and Women's Health25

Women's & Gender Studies

Explores relationship between debt and economic crisis; examines impact of austerity policies on women's health in various nations.

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01:988:411 · Gendered Health Impacts of Structural Adjustment Programs38

Women's & Gender Studies

Compares global impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund aid to developing countries. Investigates impact of cuts in public services on women's health.

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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
Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	18.8	—	85	—
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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