Women in elite economic and social groups often discriminate against and oppress other women whom they consider to be placed lower than themselves in the social hierarchy. Within a patriarchal framework, women’s capacities for peacebuilding differ from men’s in at least four ways: how women are socialized, which concerns and issues they bring to peacebuilding, which social networks they are part of, and how their gender identities allow them to do some peacebuilding activities that are denied to men. Women are not, by nature, more advantaged or disadvantaged at building peace than men.