Anthropic study finds men use AI coding agents more than twice as often as women in social science research

Anthropic found that AI coding-agent use in social science research is far higher among men than women, with men using them more than twice as often.

The gap also tracks career stage and university prestige, with larger differences among PhD students, postdocs, professors, and researchers at top-ranked universities.

Economists are the heaviest adopters, while education researchers lag behind, and most AI use is for code generation rather than text writing.

The findings point to uneven AI adoption in academia that could widen existing differences in productivity and publishing.