4  Author’s info: gender

4.1 Author’s Gender

Gender information is not originally included in Fennica. We enriched the data by linking author names with gender information from various sources, including the HENKO project, the Genderize dataset, manual curation and search, and additional records provided by the National Library of Finland. The full list of names and genders can be found here.

In total N = 1229782 records. After enrichment in total there are records 939699 / (76.4%) with assigned gender. There are 333202 (35.5%) female names, 606497 (64.5%) male names.

4.1.1 Gender over Time (1600-2000)

4.1.2 Gender over Time (1809-1917)

In total N = 66860 records. After enrichment in total there are records 42868 / (64.1%) with assigned gender. There are 3946 (9.2%) female names, 38922 (90.8%) male names.