Living to our full potential: Reassessing global sex inequalities in life expectancy

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Authors

Ann M. Weber · University of Nevada, Reno

Abstract

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.

Topics & Keywords

Sex and Gender in Healthcare Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences International Human Rights and Reproductive Law

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Gender equality

Publication Details

Published in: PLoS Medicine

Volume 23, Issue 3, pp. e1004987-e1004987

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004987

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