This paper attempts to describe the changing role of women of Kashmir and their confront to open challenges of the modern society. This paper also attempts to show the role of Government for the betterment of the women in Kashmir. For half of the past centuries, women in Kashmiri culture suffered from being treated unfairly and unequally. Their role and position were subservient and controlled by the family. But gradually the role of Kashmiri women has changed and heaving a great impact on Kashmiri society. Their roles have changed at an accelerating rate and are playing a major advancing in many aspects. Their right movement is a good example of how they have come across very strongly, fighting for their political, social and economic status. The Kashmir women have gone a significant degree of change in the field of education, profession, nutrition and health. This helped them to realize their potentialities, broaden their outlook and create a new meaning for themselves. Besides this the Kashmiri women have begun moving away from their traditional behavior pattern and attained relatively new roles.