Thomas Hardy is one of the most popular writers of the Victorian age. His novels are the albums of living characters. The purpose of the paper is to find out discover Thomas Hardy’s feminist outlook in his main stream novels. The present paper focus on characterization of the leading female characters in the above mentioned novels and a study into man based hegemony. These novels are the study into the Victorian society in which women were regarded as second sex and the victim of man based hegemony. Male outlook is a social system in which males are given primary power and predominance in different areas of power. Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal. The common goals are to define, establish and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. This includes seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women that are equal to those for men. The main aim of feminism is to deny the fact where male controls the female. To bring equal status between the male and the female, we need a transformation in both the genders. Gender is a socially constructed definition of women and men. It is not the same as sex (biological characteristics of women and men) and it is not the same as women. Gender is determined by the conception of tasks, functions, and roles attributed to women and men in society and in public and private life. The male has to reduce repression, maltreatment, wife – selling, female harassment, sexual harassment towards women.