Women’s economic empowerment is central to realizing gender equality and fostering inclusive economic growth. In fact, empowering women in the economy and closing gender gaps in work are key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. Eradicating barriers to financial resources, equitable distribution of productive assets, empowered decision making, and creating gender-inclusive workplace ecosystem are essentials for women’s economic empowerment. Work related inequalities evidenced in discounted position in the labour market, gender pay gaps, and under representation of women at managerial and senior positions; along with complex household dynamics where women have extremely limited role in decision making, and extremely low asset ownership lead women to suffer from disproportionately high burden of extreme poverty. This chapter discusses multiple structural and cultural factors responsible for hindering the financial inclusivity of women. The role of patriarchy, entrenched gender norms, illiteracy, limited skill development, inadequate access to resources, poor social protection, and limited financial inclusion have been discussed to highlight how women around the world and in India, in particular are still struggling to be economically emancipated. At the end of the chapter, strategies for economic empowerment such as addressing discriminatory social norms, equality and equity in education, financial and digital inclusion, legal protection, alternative provisions for child and elder care, promoting women entrepreneurship and counting the unpaid work of women, have been suggested.