Gandhian era witnessed the changed perception and role of women in the public space. Women became participants in the Gandhian mass movements. The paper takes up the case study of the Jain women. It probes into the impact of Gandhi on the Jain women. Gandhian influence and the Gandhian movement provided space to the Jain women to carve out their identities. The present study explores this journey of the Jain women. It investigates different aspects of the struggle of the Jain women in the Gandhian movements and portrays how gender turned out to be important determining force.