The study was conducted to assess the status of mental health of the working and non-working women. The random sample consisted of 90 working and 90 non-working women of rural and urban area was selected from Dharwad district in Karnataka state. The study emphasized on the influence of socio economic status on mental health of the working and non-working women. Mental health inventory by Jagdish and Srivastav (1983) and socio economic status scale by Aggrawal et al. (2005) was used to assess the mental health status and socio economic status of the selected respondents or sample. The results revealed that there was no significant association between mental health dimensions of the working and non-working women. The working women had better mental health when compared to non-working women. The demographic factors such as age, education, income and number of children had a positive and significant relationship with working women and family size had negative but significant relationship with mental health of the working women.