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Washington University in St. Louis · Women's & Gender Studies

50% of Washington University in St. Louis'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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Washington University in St. Louis: 50% 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
51%Left75–91
35%Center-left59–74
1%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
68 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

L77 3002 · Feminist Fire!: Radical Black Women in the 20th100

Women's & Gender Studies

Century Black women have been at the forefront of the Black radical tradition since its inception. Oen marginalized in both the scholarship and the popular memory, there exists a long unbroken chain of women who have organized around the…

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L77 3014 · Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition100

Women's & Gender Studies

"Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition" asks how the struggle for gender self-determination overlaps with struggles to refigure, transform, and abolish political institutions. We will ask: How have queer thinkers/social movements in the…

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L77 366 · Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization.100

Women's & Gender Studies

Be it sati or enforced widowhood, arranged or love marriage, the rise of national leaders like Indira Gandhi and Kamala Harris, or the obsession with "fair" skin, caste shapes possibilities and perceptions for billions. In this class we…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Washington University in St. Louis Women's & Gender Studies has 68 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
Washington University in St. Louis · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share50—100—
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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