The Longevity Gap: How Aging Research Leaves Women Behind |
As longevity shifts to A.I. and predictive health, male-biased data risks repeating old inequities at scale. Unsplash
Longevity has become one of the defining cultural fixations of our time. Biohackers are tracking every heartbeat, billionaires are sequencing their genomes and wellness influencers are touting the latest “life-extending” protocols as if they’re new commandments. Yet for all its promises, the modern longevity movement remains built on a narrow foundation: men’s health.
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See all of our newslettersThe paradox is hiding in plain sight. Women live, on average, five to seven years longer than men, but far fewer of those years are spent in good health. While women make up half the population, the frameworks shaping the future of aging rarely center on their biology or lived reality. Instead, women spend six to eight of their later years in poorer health, often cycling through unanswered symptoms, inadequate treatments and delayed or missed diagnoses.
Women are diagnosed an average of four years later across hundreds of diseases, and nearly three-quarters say they have felt dismissed, disbelieved or “medically gaslit” by the healthcare system. They are also 50........