Women empowerment is all about the struggle of women to secure social justice and equality since ancient time to modern era. Empowering women is the only way for effective development. Women empowerment is closely associated with the sustainable and economic growth of a country because when a man is educated, only an individual become educated and when a female is educated, the entire family becomes educated and there by whole society and nation develops. Empowering women is a major concern across the world specifically in developing countries like India. In order to that various hurdles have been identified by legislature like economic exploitation, inequalities in education, health and employment. Indian constitution provides equal rights to women and various legislations were enacted in order to protect and safeguard their interest.

KEYWORDS: Health & Employment, Economic Exploitation, Economic Growth, Women Empowerment.