The Sustainable Development Goals identify Gender Equality as one of the priority goals under Goal number 5. In societies across cultures, gender inequal norms remain one of the major issues that impede progress with regard to overall development outcome. India alongside other South Asian, South East Asian and African countries, feature in glaring terms as observed and reported for gender unjust societal practices besides generally poor indicators related to the standard of life for majority of women in the region. Further, in societies like in India where cultures across the subcontinental space are predominantly patriarchal, cultural conditioning and community narratives of established roles of women further impede efforts at promoting equal participation of women in roles outside their families or outside of strict community norms. Kashmir, a conservative society as well as a conflict region which accords to people limited rights in general, has miles to go in terms of initiating and sustaining a gender just way of life for all. Kashmir’s youth recognize that there remains much work to be done to create awareness on the need for gender justice and equality locally while initiating creative processes to further the cause of a transformation of community approach to looking at the role of women in society.