Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of the 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. The career priorities of working professionals are consistent across genders, women in the workplace continue to face issues limiting their growth trajectory within organizations. There is still a dearth of strong female leaders in organizations that women can look up to as role models. By reviewing major strands of the theoretical, methodological, and empirical literature on women empowerment from the different fields and attempt to summarize what we know and don’t know about what leads to women’s empowerment in the education sector. This paper attempts to analyze the status of women empowerment in Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra by randomly collecting data from various faculty members of different departments. and highlights the reasons why working women in university feel they are under-represented in leadership positions. Based on the analysis, this study will provide some concrete recommendations regarding the key drivers which will facilitate working women in their careers within the university.