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Williams College · Women's & Gender Studies

59.7% of Williams College'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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Williams College: 59.7% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

19%Far left92–100
61%Left75–91
19%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
59 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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FramingSubject

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

WGSS 225 · Buddhism, Social Change, & Reproductive Justice in the Anthropocene (DPE)100

Women's & Gender Studies

Cross-listings: REL 258 / ANTH 258 / ASIA 258 Secondary Cross-listing This course considers how three women profoundly shaped the Buddha's life and legacy in terms of social change & reproductive justice. Our central characters are…

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WGSS 362 · "'Rebel Ecologies': Black and Indigenous Struggles for Land and Life"100

Women's & Gender Studies

Cross-listings: AFR 300 / ENVI 300 / AMST 362 Secondary Cross-listing This course will ask, what other socioecological models exist? We will weave together a study of differing, yet often converging or synergistic traditions of…

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WGSS 402 · Marxist Feminisms: Race, Performance, Labor (DPE)100

Women's & Gender Studies

Cross-listings: AAS 402 / AMST 402 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar provides an overview of queer, black and women of color feminist, decolonial, and critical ethnic studies critiques of orthodox Marxism. Beginning with core texts from…

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Furthest-right subjects

WGSS 243 · Islamic Law: Past and Present17

Women's & Gender Studies

Cross-listings: HIST 302 / ARAB 243 / ASIA 243 / REL 243 Secondary Cross-listing From fear of the Shari'a to its implementation in so called "Islamic countries," Islamic law is perhaps best associated with draconian punishments and the…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Williams College · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share59.7—72—
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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