Although conservation and environmental discourses frequently reproduce gendered biases, gender equity is widely acknowledged as being crucial to attaining sustainable development. Essentialist perspectives, which portray women as inherently closer to nature, have long influenced environmental ethics and policy, particularly within climate change debates. However, social ecofeminist critiques challenge these assumptions, highlighting the fact that social, political, and economic structures—rather than biological fate—determine women's environmental roles. This study adopts a multifaceted approach to examine how globalization both enables and constrains women’s environmental involvement. It explores how market-driven economies, conservation interventions, and climate-induced displacement restructure women’s access to and control over natural resources. With particular attention to the Himalayan context, the analysis highlights women’s agency in negotiating shifting ecological and social realities. Women are not merely passive custodians of nature but active political actors whose strategies of adaptation and resistance challenge deterministic narratives of gender and environment. The study highlights the need for policy interventions that goes beyond essentialism to arrive at socially rooted and context-specific understandings of the gender environment relationship. By situating women’s role it proceeds to place the role of women within the broader dynamics of globalization, environmental governance, and cultural change, thereby developing a social ecofeminist perspective, in which diversity, agency, and structural inequality are prioritized in creating a constantly evolving nexus between women and nature.