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 = 1318056 records. After enrichment in total there are records 996414 / (75.6%) with assigned gender. There are 359512 (36.1%) female names, 636902 (63.9%) male names.

4.1.1 Gender over Time (1600-2000)

4.1.2 Gender over Time (1809-1917)

In total N = 73042 records. After enrichment in total there are records 46533 / (63.7%) with assigned gender. There are 4555 (9.8%) female names, 41978 (90.2%) male names.