DisastersDisaster are elements of disruption that tend to reshuffle the pre-existing organisation of the society. It may take forms of institutional change that potentially creates an innovative social order. It might also assume forms to re-entrench the earlier cleavages and inequalities prevailing. WomenWomen-genderGender-disasterDisaster discourse endorses how a disasterDisaster event, rather than procreating newer forms of vulnerabilityVulnerability, sharpens the prevailing norms of subordination to make the disasterDisaster experience of men and womenWomen different. That it is argued that womenWomen are more vulnerable compared to the men during disastersDisaster is an outcome of their genderGender role constructions which organises their differential access to resources that are essential for negotiating the challenges arising at different phases of the incident. There are alternate positions that argue how the womenWomen can emerge as more effective leaders in both the management of disastersDisaster and in the recovery phases broadly based upon the efficiency logic. This paper seeks to undertake a systematic review of these contradictions from the seminal journals (indexed in Scopus on the basis of their impact factors and repute) to trace the trajectory of how genderGender and disasterDisaster discourse has been configured.