essentialist approaches differ in concluding whether women should be involved in leadership for either conflict or peacebuilding while some essentialists glorify what they see as the qualities of women others laud the essential qualities of men these theories rarely lead to an embracing of the diversity among and between men and women while not denying the biological differences between men and women the field of sociology places much more emphasis on how the environment shapes men and women in the process of socialization human beings are not born as men or women