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Resources are critical to women's identity and livelihoods and autonomy, agency, and rights. Historically, due to gendered division of labour (GDL), patriarchal cultural norms and laws and economic inequalities, women in all their diversity have been denied equal access to resources such as education, health services, credit, land and technologies. Assessment of access to and control of resources has been a fundamental tool of women empowerment. According to Kishor (2006)" -Gender involves differences in power, both power to and power over". Just 29% of all internet users in the country are female, According to the reports of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) that the 42 percentage "digital gender gap" among internet users in India is far more extreme than the global divide. Across the world, 56% of all internet users were men in 2017, compared to 44% women. Importantly, men tend to have greater power than women, and, in some domains, even have power over women. The present paper illustrates with the help of secondary data that gender inequalities in access to the key resources of education and employment that capture women's access to other resources, including financial, health, and media resources, and also women's access to spaces outside their homes and decision making power in homes. These indicators all highlight significant constraints on women's access to all types of resources. This study also highlights the significant focus and resources given to initiatives on women's access to credit and other economic alternatives for women status building, from the grassroots.