The local user communities are responsible for the control, protection and management of the forests. Joint forest management advocates strong community participation, bottom up planning and sustainable use of forest resources. Women are also the active users and members of most of the community forests. There are about 560 women user groups in state. Thus, women are providing an important role in sustainable development of community forests. However, their role is neither properly identified nor explored. This paper explores and analyzes women's role in development and conservation of forest for its sustainable development. It also highlights the constraints on maximum female participation in community forestry and focuses on possible ways for solving the problems faced by women in community forestry. Present study had been conducted in four villages of central Chhattisgarh. Out of these villages two villages which belong to Raigarh District are having good forest cover and remaining two villages have less than 5% forest cover belong to Janjgeer District. To formulate a systematic approach for studying about women's participation an elaborate exercise was taken for data collection. For the purpose socio economic survey of the villagers was conducted. A pre designed question ire along with PRA, RRA methods were used for primary data collection