Abstract: A woman is the full circle within her is the power to create, nurture and transform” Diame Marie Child. Despite some basic changes in the status and role of women in the society, the Indian society does not treat its women as well as its men. True there are some striking cases of breaking the glass ceiling. The names of daughter of dust Aruna Roy, EX-IAS, Suchitra Mahajan, Speaker of Loksabha, Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, Defence Minister, Writer and Activist Arundhati Roy, Environmentalist Medha Patkar, Boxing Champion Mary Kom, Badminton Champion P.V. Sindhu, Business Women Indra Nooyi, Major Kushboo Kanwar, Captain Shika Surabhi and several other names came to mind. But as one swallow does not make a summer, the fact of some women occupying top positions does not make the development process broad-based equitable and inclusive clearly much more needs to be done.