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It is generally said that the state of development of a society can be judged from the status of women in a society . Women perform a number of roles in the family ,community and the wider social system .Their status in the society is determined by their composite status depending upon their various positions and roles .The position of women in our society had not always been the same . There was a time when women was accorded a high status as in the Rig vedic period but in the middle ages , her position was reduced to that of a slave .Many social evils pertaining to women cropped up in the society like polygamy ,sati system, Dowry, female infanticide etc. In this paper, an attempt has been made to examine the contribution of the Guru Nanak Devji to the cause of the upliftment of women.The various verses in the Bani of Guruji clearly reveals that he worked for the emanicipation of women in the contemporary period.