War widens every fault line, but the status of women bears the deepest fracture. War does not affect all bodies in the same way. It reorganises power, access, and survival along lines that already exist. Gender is one of those lines. When conflict begins, it does not create new inequalities. It sharpens the old ones and makes them harder to ignore. The philosophical case for taking this seriously is straightforward. If a society's baseline distribution of rights, resources, a