Abstract: This research re-examines the approaches to women empowerment highlighting their weakness in the existing field of application. The three approaches of women empowerment-integrated development approach, economic development approach and consciousness raising and organizing approach are not fulfilling the expectation of women as the whole process of decision making is done by the men, whereas women participation is indispensable for equal, just and gender unbiased society. The findings of the article indicate that women are ignored in decision making process because male attitude towards female is not positive, which causes gender discrimination in the society leading the existing approaches of women empowerment to rethinking for a new approach, which may fulfill the goal of women empowerment in the new millennium. This study comes to a conclusion suggesting the new approach for the empowerment of women in this challenging era of globalized world.