Minority Report: The Myth of Equality in Digital Humanities

Digital humanities is a relatively new discipline and its practitioners are constantly pushing its boundaries and modifying its perspectives. The general perception suggests that digital humanities, as a discipline, is balanced in terms of gender. Moreover, we have been told that "Digital Humanities is 'Nice'" and we have been told why it is so nice (Scheinfeldt). However, these perceptions are easily contradicted. Even the simplest of analysis (such as the ratio of first author gender for accepted papers in the annual Digital Humanities conference) produces evidence undercutting the claims to equality and to the inclusiveness of the field.