Gender is an essential piece of the complicated web of humanitarian action in wartime because war itself is both intricately gendered and has a tangible impact on gender. Although aid agencies, in particular World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), have included gender and gender equality in their purviews for development, the definitions of gender vary between organizations and such variance causes a lack of accountability for gender in aid programs, institutionalized gendered assumptions about aid recipients, and discrepancies on other terms such as vulnerability, empowerment, and dignity. Therefore, through WFP and UNHCR reports, policies, and evaluations, I aim to analyze how aid organizations definitions of gender have led to gendered assumptions that may ultimately impact Syrian refugees receiving WFP food assistance in Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan.