The purposes of the study were to find out health and nutritional status of the housewives and working women in North Bengal region and their comparison with each other. A total of 225 house wives (HW) and 225 working women (WW) in between the age of 35 to 45 years were selected randomly from different region of CoochBehar, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling district of North Bengal and comparison was done between these two groups. Height, Body weight, body fat percentage (PBF) and body mass index (BMI) were considered as variables for measurement of health and nutritional status in the present study. All the variables were measured with the standard tools and equations. Mean and Standard deviation were calculated as descriptive statistics and to find out the inter group difference t-test was conducted. Result shows that HW group was superior in weight, PBF and BMI than WW. Result also shown that body fat Percentage (PBF) of WW group was in normal category but for HW group it was over than the normal zone. Result also revealed that HW group was in over weight zone in respect of BMI but WW group was in the normal zone in this category. All the mean difference between these two groups was found statistically significant in this study. From the results it was concluded that in the North Bengal region of India working women (WW) had superior health status than the housewives (HW).