Introduction: Social capital consists of a collection of norms and laws and unofficial networks which provide companionship, trust and collective effort for obtaining public merchandise and entails those aspects of social structure which facilitate collective effort (Suzuki, 2010) and provide people with resources to attain their objectives. Among the many recent changes can be the soaring participation rate of women, specifically their ever-increasing participation and presence as official workforce (Nozari, 2001). Considering the structural transformation of labor market and decentralization of macro structures in favor of flexibility and workshop based production, social capital can have an invaluable place for empowering women of unofficial settlements.