Food security is a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Women play a decisive role in, household and national food security. Women also try to ensure that all members of family receive adequate share of food. The study population includes all economically active women aged 18-60 years living in urban slums. A self-administered questionnaire was framed and used as a tool to collect the information. Science (SPSS version 10.0) was used to generate percentage and to carry out bivariate (cross tabulation) analysis. The study revealed that there exists a significant relationship between educational level of women and household food security. It was found that food consumes more than half of the households’ total income. Households’ most common coping strategies adopted include: reducing food consumption, sometimes remaining hungry, accessing credit, taking loan to buy foods, sending their household member to eat elsewhere and removing children from school& reducing expenditures on essential requirements. Overall, the food insecurity exists in the study. Most households had adopted both long and short term strategies. The most popular coping strategies were to rely on less preferred foods, borrowing food from friends or relatives and purchasing food on credit.