by Ann M. Weber, Gary L.
Darmstadt 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. In this Perspective article, Ann Weber and Gary Darmstadt discuss how 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.
PLOS Medicine published a clinical update in Research Highlights on 17 Mar 2026.
The item focuses on Living to our full potential: Reassessing global sex inequalities in life expectancy.
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