Review of Economics and Development Studies, Vol. 6 (2) 2020, 257-266 257 Economic Empowerment of Women in Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Federally Administrative Tribal Area (Pakistan): A Case Study of Kurram Agency a Fazal e Wahid, b Mehnaz Jaffri, c Hamid Ullah, d Muhammad Irshad Khan Mohmand a Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan Email: Eco_wahid@yahoo.com b M. Phil. Scholar, Department of Economics, Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan Email: Jaffri313@gmail.com c Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Islamia College Peshawar Email: hamidullah@icp.edu.pk d Ph.D. Scholar, Management Sciences, Quartaba University of Science & Information Technology, Pakistan Email: irshadmohmand@gmail.com ARTICLE DETAILS ABSTRACT History: Accepted: 11 May 2020 Available Online: 15 June 2020 The study investigates the indicators that effect women’s economic empowerment. The data collected through questionnaires, with 350 sample dimension. Pragmatic results expose that enrolment of female in education, decision making power, decision concerning household asset and economic opportunities have positive effected on WEE and significant. Participation in economy & educational retrieve hold positive and insignificant effect on WEE due to limited access to educationalists, masculinity basis, male dominancy etc. Problems of socio-cultural, poverty have negative and insignificant effect on WEE because of cultural restrictions; female workers are bounded to teaching field & functioning in their own lands. Finally, the recommendations of the study are that free access should be given to women for education regardless of ethnicity, sexual partialities and may be allowed to work along their male equivalents in order to raise the level of economic empowerment of women. The same will subsequently enhance their potential for elimination of poverty, illiteracy and self-reliance in the society. © 2020 The authors. Published by SPCRD Global Publishing. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Keywords: Economic Empowerment of Women, Enrolment of Female in Education, Decision Making Power, Decision Concerning Household Asset, Economic Opportunities, Socio-Cultural Issues, Gender Partialities, Poverty And Male Dominancy JEL Classification: M54, M59, P36,P39 DOI: 10.47067/reads.v6i2.201 Corresponding author’s email address: Eco_wahid@yahoo.com 1. Introduction In social, economic, and political views, empowerment has a huge deal of varieties. Generally, it is used to trace association indoors families between orphaned clusters and other societies globally (Miraj, 6k1B). Women’s empowerment as a state in which females dominate equivalent rights of household strength, educational facilities, and political rights. Empowerment of women have basic center of magnetism and antedate huge entrée to information, economic facilities and decision making according to economy and politics (Kabir, 2005). The main determinant for empowerment is education