Women are an important actor of development in today’s world. Any development activity will undoubtedly be hampered if the status of women, constituting about fifty percent of the world population, remains low. Disparity between men and women exists in every sphere of women’s lives in most of the countries. Women in Bangladesh are also deprived from enjoying their rights starting from birth. They are not allowed to enjoy basic services like food, health and nutrition and education. The area of employment is not exception. Though the Government of Bangladesh has declared a number of policies and programs to uplift the status of women in the civil service still women are poorly represented here.  This study is an attempt to explore the present status of women in the cadre service. At the same time it will try to identify the barriers that impede women access in the service along with prescribing some suggestions to improve present situation so that women could enter the service in greater number. This paper employs both primary and secondary information collected from interview with female officials, recent publications, journals, books, research reports and other documents. Forty-seven junior and mid-ranking women civil servants belonging to the administration, agriculture, audit and accounts, education, family planning and health cadre were being interviewed.