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The New School · Women's & Gender Studies

66.3% of The New School'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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The New School: 66.3% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

12%Far left92–100
62%Left75–91
26%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
73 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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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

NEPS 6003 · Gendered Ecologies100

Women's & Gender Studies

What connects the depredation of nature to gendered violence and social plundering? What links the dominant governance and corporate policy and management frameworks to gendered environmental destruction and violence against women land…

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NINT 5446 · Global Drug Policy100

Women's & Gender Studies

Current drug policies are failing. Worse, they are causing enormous harm to individuals, communities, and entire nations. The current opioid crisis in the US is only one glaring example. Around the world, poorly designed drug laws that seek…

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PSOF 5110 · Indigenous Fashion100

Women's & Gender Studies

This course will introduce Indigenous practices and systems of making from pre-contact to present day, that continue to impact the course of history. Indigenous communities throughout North and South America continue to enlighten global…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. The New School Women's & Gender Studies has 73 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
The New School · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share66.3—86—
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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