Kashmiri women in the entire postindependence period progressed in some developmentrelated fields, but, at the same time, faced serious degenerative problems in the last two decades. Keeping in view these womenrelated developments in Kashmir, the empirical studies of this book were carried out in last 8 years in the sociological framework to develop scientific understanding and to generate statistical data about the existing problems of women in the valley study of mulifrious current problems of women, study of women's problems who are working in the unorganized sectors/fields of the handicrafts and microlevel studies of women working in some traditional occupations and modern professions.