Nutritional status is a most vital factor by which individual’s health status is defined. Nutritional status is well maintained by diet, consuming good food, good habits, meditation, exercise, good hygienic habits. Women play an important role in all the development including social, economic as well as they are also responsible for maintaining the health of their family members. Low nutritional status makes women prone to certain ailments. Lower health status manifests itself in lower life expectancy, higher rates of morbidity and mortality, lower levels of productivity, and a decreased ability to earn and support. Patriarchal social structure, gender discrimination right from the birth, malnutrition, illiteracy, unskilled labour, hard physical work, early marriage, repeated and multiple pregnancies and poverty are some of the factors that weigh against the females. The most prevalent nutritional deficiencies are protein calorie malnutrition, anaemia, and multi vitamin deficiency. Present study was aimed to study the nutritional status of rural and urban women of Sidhpur taluka of Gujarat state. For the study, total 180 women (Rural -90, Urban -90) of 21-50 years of age were randomly selected for the anthropometric measurements. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated and categorized in to low (< 18.5 kg /ht(m)2 ), normal (18.5 – 24.9 kg /ht (m)2 ) and high ( >25 kg /ht (m)2) according to WHO criteria. A pre structured questionnaire was filled up for the data collection on personal, socio – economic variables, health and nutritional status and anemia prevalence was measured by secondary data. More than fifty percent selected women were malnourished in the form of underweight, overweight and anaemia. For the reduction in malnutrition, multi sectoral approaches should be beneficial and effective.