This study continues the gender debate by evaluating the roles of women as proprietors, and workers of small scale industrial enterprises in Ondo state of Nigeria. The study made use of 200 questionnaire which was administered on women owned enterprises sampled from the existing 1250 enterprises in the state. The second questionnaire was administered on two workers who were picked randomly from the selected industries making 400 female workers. Data collected were analysed using descriptive methods such as simple tables, pie charts and ANOVA. Previous studies had established the importance of women as entrepreneurs and workers of small scale industries, this study emphasized that 82% of women were involved in informal enterprises mostly in agro and food products industries. For example out of the 200 women proprietors 36.7% were in Textile, 41% in Agro/Food products, 12.1% in Consumer products, 10% in Industrial/Constructional products sector. The study also revealed a very low capital base among women. Some 20% (40) of respondents had businesses whose values were below ₦21,000 and 90% of them paid their workers less than the workers are appreciated (40%) with a low average income that averaged 7,500 ($47.4) per month. The study established that women entrepreneurs and workers will be better served when they have improved access to means of production across the three regions of the state.