A survey based study was carried out to find out the role and participation of farm women in dairy farming, using a pretest interview schedule by personal interview for a sample of 150 rural women in Bikaner district, Rajasthan. The study revealed that majority of the women were middle aged (56.67%) in joint families (65.33%) with 52 per cent being literates. Most of the respondents were small farmers (31.34%) with low annual income (62.0%), having agriculture (53.33%) as the major occupation. About 31 practices of dairy farming were selected in consultation with experts and were broadly categorized into six aspects as feeding, management, breeding, health care, processing, marketing and miscellaneous practices. The study highlighted that women participation was maximum in caring of pregnant animals (95.33%) followed by milking (91.33%). The study further revealed that 90 per cent women involved in cleaning of animals sheds and care of newly born calves whereas 88.66 per cent farm women were involved in disposed of cow dung. The farm women actively involved in feeding the animals (88.00%) and taking the animals for pregnancy diagnosis (84.66%). However the least participation was in getting loans or credits from banks (46.67%) and farm record keeping (51.33%). Total eight independent variables were included in the study, out of which four variables like age, land holding, herd size and social participation were found to be highly and significantly related with extent of participation of the farm women in dairy enterprise, Whereas, the remaining variables failed to attain the statistical level of significance i.e. family type, education, marital status and monthly income respectively.