Ensuring inclusive growth is crucial for social and sustainable development. Many people in developed and developing societies continue to remain excluded from the various development processes because of their particular gender, caste, race, and religious identities. Gender identity is one of the important factors which continue to determine the distribution of power, knowledge, wealth and health opportunities. It is argued that gender inequality is socially created by the existing normative, patriarchal and capitalist structure. However, women are not a homogenous block and gender does not have the same consequences on every woman. In a highly stratified society like that of India, gender is complexly connected with other components of stratification like caste that mediate different outcomes. In contemporary India, caste still subtly shapes the distribution of opportunities, with certain castes leveraging their caste-based advantages. Each caste possesses its own form of caste capital, which affects individuals’ socioeconomic status and contributes differently to their overall development and human capital formation. Gender and caste identities create a complex system of stratification that needs to be deconstructed for understanding the intensity and difference in the level of discrimination and for reaching to actual marginalized and excluded groups. Within this framework, the study aims to examine how gendered power dynamics and the oppression of women are embedded within caste-based hierarchies, and how these structures influence women’s occupational status.