Gender studies on land-related matters have been a matter of investigation. However, there are limited studies that investigate the involvement or the lack thereof of rural women in the Xolobe rural area in the Eastern Cape. This research looks into issues of land allocation, awareness, legislature, right to land ownership, and the inclusion or exclusion of rural women in matters about land. A quantitative method was used through structured questionnaires to collect data from 308 respondents in the Upper, Middle, and Lower Xolobe locality of the Eastern Cape. The collected data was analysed using inferential statistics (means of relatedness of the observed land related variables and computation of scores). Findings reveal that a significant number (90%) of women are unaware of land-related policies and regulations and were not consulted when land issues were discussed or decisions were made on land allocation in the area. A substanti