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The present study aims at comparison of role of females in family decision making between SC and general females of rural areas of Tissa and Salooni blocks of Chamba District in Himachal Pradesh. Overall female decision making covered 27 types of activities in which women were asked to indicate the extent of their participation in decision making. Scores for extent of role in family decision making were given from zero to 4 where zero means no participation and four means final decision of a female. Hypothesis of no difference is tested. It is inferred that though females have lesser role in family decision making yet, every female has equal role in family decision making irrespective of her cast. The difference in mean scores of SC and general females is not significant implying that females of both categories are having equal role in decision regarding all kinds of activities separately. It supports the fact that various policies and schemes launched to uplift scheduled caste females have worked pretty well which is healing as well.