High poverty undermines rural women’s productivity and lowers their purchasing power, thereby denying them access to quality education, health care, and basic needs. Despite this, most previous poverty studies, especially in Nigeria, did not focus on women. This study, accessed the poverty status of women in Gidan Madi community and identify the factors responsible for their poverty status. Multistage Sampling technique was use to select 540 rural women in Gidan madi community. Primary data, collected using structured questionnaire and analysed with descriptive statistics and logistic regression. The result revealed that rural women in Gidan Madi community were less educated, had an average of 56 years and 78% of them were married with an average household size of fifteen persons. Mostly involved in small scale business, the factors contributing to the high poverty rate among women in Gidan Madi community are age, household size, lack of quality education and access to credit facility were the inhibiting factors. The study recommends the provision of credit facilities, access to extension services, birth control measures, and intensification of education as a means of alleviating poverty among women in Gidan Madi community of Sokoto State.