Women have benefited from various empowerment initiatives in the 21st century, but achieving sustainable development is still a mountain to climb. They still find it hard to leave the clutches of patriarchy due to mounting pressure to conform to society's demands. In Gurbani, women are treated with great respect. "So kyun manda aakhiye jit jamme rajaan," Guru Nanak Dev Ji once said.More than 500 years ago, Guru Nanak Dev Ji expressed the importance of women. According to him, the female gender is significant in every area of a man's life, as well as for the survival of the human race and the mere existence of humanity.Despite holding respectable position in Gurbani, women continue to face brutality no matter how modernized the world becomes from various perspectives; it is simply a matter of the methods and means of harassment having changed and developed over time. The present paper is an attempt to explore Guru Nanak's philosophy on women in Gurbani and to compare it with the position that women occupy in society at present and in recent decades. The work will examine the amaranthine plight of women, gender incongruities and its impact on male child development as represented in BapsiSidhwa’s Novel ‘The Pakistani Bride’, Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’ and Meena Kandasamy’s ‘When I Hit You,Or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’.Therefore, the current study sheds light on gender incongruity, ignorance of religious sayings, and exploring how rambunctious conviction framework and conduct irrespective of one's feelings, education, class, or position are enforced which impacts women as well as the growth ofa male child under the clutches of patriarchal framework.

Religion, male child, violence, women, genderincongruity, sustainable development.