Living to our full potential: Reassessing global sex inequalities in life expectancy
Benchmarking life expectancy against what is achievable reveals how sex disadvantage shifts by age, place, and time, and reframes inequality as unrealized potential due to social and structural constraints rather than differences in biology.
Authors
- Gary L. Darmstadt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7522-5824)
- Ann M. Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8130-5858)
Institutions
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS Medicine
- Published
- 2026-03-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004987
- Primary Topic
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00