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Life is not same for all. Women face discrimination and face competition in every sectors of their lives. Every day thousands of women struggle to earn their living especially because of the competition with the men of the society. Women as hawkers are truly vulnerable to a no. of exploitations and harassments. Nearly thousands of women especially from the later middle aged group take up vendoring in local trains to sustain from their poverty. The research selected 3 respondents who hawk in the main line trains running in between Barrackpore and Sealdah, adopting convenient sampling and study their living conditions. These respondents were interviewed and participant observation method was followed. It is noted that the train hawkers follow the Railway Act and get the licenses through Sealdah Hawkers Union. The study mainly focuses on everyday life of these three female hawkers and the complexities that led them to be in this informal sector. The study also examines how they face the vulnerabilities of exploitations. . Everyone constantly puts a man before women no matter how much efforts she put in for balancing everything. Women and men face unequal treatment all over the world in all sectors of their lives. So it is important to know more about these unnoticed lives which we see every day.