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Women Empowerment is a debatetable subject in India. From early 20 century their status has been changed slowly and gradually. The empowerment of women especially the economic empowerment has become the most important concerns of the 21st century. However, but they are discriminated in all essential areas of life, either in education, income, partner choice, inheritance laws, property rights, decision making process, community organization or access to leadership position in education, business or politics. Women constitute almost 50% of the world population but accomplish it resting on an unstable ground. During the past two decades, a changing perspective towards the contribution of women in progress and other economic activities is said to be on the rise but development activities have benefited only a marginal segment of the women. Since the independence, the government of India has introduced various legally measure such as legal equal remuneration women act (1976), indecent representation of women act (1986), and protection of women from domestic violence act (2005) and scheme to uplift the women economic empowerment such as self-help group, National Mission for employment of women (2001), national policy for women (2016) and Integrated Women's Empowerment Programme. The survey highlights the increasing participation rate of women in Rural Female Labour Force Participation rate (FLFPR) from 19.7 percent in 2018-19 to 27.7 percent in 2020-21 (Economic Survey, 2022-23). In spite of this, women face issue and challenges notably domestic violence unequal wage and gender inequality which hinders women empowerment. In this regards, the present study is composed of women economic empowerment, need, issues and challenges in India.