This publication talks about both positive and negative sides of women’s empowerment in Sri Lanka followed by a discussion on gender-differentiated effects on workers. Over the past years, women have undergone many difficulties and these difficulties still continue to exist where women are forced to handle manmade and natural disasters, poverty and even issues in relation to ageing single handed. There are eight papers discussed that includes issues pertaining to education, conflict, disaster, life expectancy and so and so forth.