Issues of women empowerment and participation in high leadership or decision making positionsrnare becoming the centre stages in the discourse of global development. Enhancement of womenrnparticipation and improve their empowerment with intent to the gender equality has to get duernfocus to enable them uplifted to the decision making role they can play.rnRole of women in defence strength and effectiveness in the same way is crucial and has to getrnspecial concern and commitment of the leadership, put ways of enforcement mechanism for thernsuccess.rnThe problem pushed the researcher to make his study on women empowerment was that due tornhis work field, he had an opportunity to meet leaders at all levels of leadership and observedrnthere was no woman at strategic and operational leadership positions; all the stated positionsrnwere seen occupied by men leaving all high ranked women at third lower level/ tactical/rnleadership positions and struck him to make his study on the Assessment of Women armyrnmembersâ€™ empowerment at strategic and Operational leadership positions.rnThe objective of the study was to assess the current gap on women empowerment at strategic andrnoperational leadership positions in national defence i.e. To justify leadership positions occupiedrnby women as compared to men and To identify the challenges that hinder women to come up tornthe stated positions through the questions specified as, Do women in the national defence enjoyrnempowerment in strategic and operational leadership positions equal to the men? What areas ofrnleadership positions do women occupy in the organization as compared to men? Whatrnchallenges hinder women to come up to the stated leadership positions? That answeredrnsuccessfully. Method of the study was both quantitative and qualitative research approaches sornas to meet the set objectives. The findings collected from the study showed that there arernchallenges such as absence of gender related guideline, lack of enforcement mechanism to therngender mainstreaming issues incorporated in organizational laws, Lesser effort on womenrncapacity building, Lack of commitment and accountability on all the concerned leaders tornidentify the gap and put strategic direction to fill the gap. Therefore, The organization has to putrnimplementation mechanism as mere presence of policy and strategic documents has no value,rnwomen have strengthen their organization to have power and show commitment to enforce thernrightsrntheyrnhave;rnmalernhaverntornbernenduredrntornputrntheirrnallrnroundrnsupport