The social security schemes in all the countries of the world include maternity care and benefits for women workforce as an integral part while taking into account the wellness of their women workers. Apart from providing medical care to women workers in case of confinement, miscarriage, sickness arising out of pregnancy, premature birth of the child, adoption etc., it also provides protection of wages and security of employment in aforesaid situations. It has to be noted that in India it was a long journey to reach to a point where such rights are now acknowledged and recognized by the society and are reflected in the law of the land, despite the long-held beliefs around the concept of gender, pregnancy and the like situations. However, the judicial interventions and pronouncements show that the interpretation and implementation of the law still suffers from some of the remnant of the past.