Sex differences in people and things orientation have been reported in a range of psychobehavioural domains. Females, on average, score higher than males on people orientation, while males, on average, score higher than females on things orientation. In this article, I reanalyse recent data on sex differences in academic publishing using Scopus journal articles from 2017 (n = 27,710 articles in India; n = 285,619 articles in the US). The results show that in both India (r_s = –.71) and the United States (r_s = –.69), women were more prevalent as the first authors of articles in more people-oriented fields than in fields that were more things-oriented, which had a high proportion of male first authors. The findings indicate that there are similar cross-national patterns between US and India in field-specific female-to-male author ratios when factoring in the people and things orientation of those fields. Where the people and things dimension fails to explain sex differences in academic publishing, sex differences in the empathising–systemising quotients may explain residual variation in sex differences in research subject choices. The findings reported here extend existing psychobehavioural, developmental, and evolutionary research on sex differences in interests and cognitive styles.

人们在心理行为的各个方面都报告了人与事物取向的性别差异。女性在人际取向上的平均得分高于男性，而男性在事物取向上的平均得分高于女性。在这篇文章中，我使用Scopus期刊文章从2017年重新分析上的性别差异最近的数据在学术出版（ñ印度= 27710篇; ñ =美国285619篇）。结果表明，在印度（r _s = –.71）和美国（r _s= –.69），在以人为本的领域中，女性作为文章的第一作者更为普遍，而在以事物为导向的领域中，男性的第一作者比例更高。研究结果表明，在考虑这些领域的人与物取向时，美国和印度之间在特定领域的男女作者比例上也存在类似的跨国模式。在人和事物维度无法解释学术出版中的性别差异的地方，善解人意的系统商中的性别差异可能可以解释研究对象选择中性别差异的残留差异。此处报道的发现扩展了现有的关于兴趣和认知方式上的性别差异的心理行为，发育和进化研究。