Synopsis The present study is a pioneering effort in contributing to some extent towards the understanding of the socio-economic problems of informal women labourers. The study examines the problems of construction women labour and women employed in domestic services in a backward state like Orissa, in the national framework. Both primary and secondary sources of data have been accumulated and used for analysis of factual data so as to make the study more interesting and useful. In fact, the findings and observations of the study will be certainly useful to the policy workers, researchers, demographers, labour administrators, sociologists, women activities and even to the general readers.