The co-authorship network with gender information, data from journals CHum, DSH/LLC and DHQ (1966–2017), graph created by VOSviewer. Although female scholars account for less than 30% of the total, many of their nodes are functioning as important bridges, linking different clusters that would otherwise be disconnected from the main network, and they have much higher betweenness centrality values (e.g. the nodes of Susan Hockey, Susan Brown, Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Maxine Brown, Claire Warwick, Julia Flanders)