Dairy farming in India is a female dominated enterprise. It is established beyond doubt that women always participated in dairy and animal husbandry activities in addition to their daily household chores. In fact dairy farming is becoming feminized. Most of the farm activities such as fodder collection, feeding, watering, health care, management, milking and household-level processing, value addition and marketing are performed by women. Women constitute about 69% of workforce engaged in livestock sector. India is the world’s largest milk producing country with a share of about 16 per cent in world’s total milk production and rank 1st in milk production. The major share of the credit for India’s position as largest milk producing country in the world and the significant increase in the per capita availability of milk in the country has to go to the largely illiterate rural women dairy farmers. Dairying is most likely to be effective as ‘a pathway out of poverty for rural women and enable them to compete with commercial producers provided the organisations planning and implementing livestock development programmes are sensitive towards the needs, resources, production systems and perceptions of the families and extension service is strengthened and targeted to the underprivileged families particularly the women. Action plans should be agreed and implemented based on the outcomes of the iterative interactions amongst the social groups and the technical teams regarding the ways to increase productivity and profitability and to improve the non-market functions of dairy farming at household, community and village levels. Success in dairy farming improved the socio-economic status and the position of the farm women in their home and village which ultimately leads to women empowerment through creating awareness and capacity building, leading to greater participation, greater decision making power, control and transformation action.