Empowerment has been identified as a key constituent element of poverty reduction and as a primary development assistance goal by the World Bank (Malhotra, 2002). The World Bank has also made gender mainstreaming a priority in development assistance. So the issues related to status and empowerment of women attracts the attention of the academicians, political thinkers and social scientists both in developing as well as developed countries. In India, the status of women is said to have been located at two extremes, though the constitution guarantees equality to women and ensures rights of women yet India is one of the few nations of the world where gender related discrimination still persists in forms of dowry deaths, domestic violence and exploitation. Considering such scenario, the main objective of this discourse is to seek out the status of women in Lepcha tribal community, who are supposed to be the autochthon of Darjeeling and Sikkim. For the analysis and accomplishment of this paper both quantitative and qualitative method based data has been collected during the month of october 2016 from the Lepcha village named Pakang which is located in Gitdubling Gram Panchayat of Kalimpong Sub-division. Four parameters of empowerment namely social, economic, political and familial have been considered for this purpose. Data were collected from 100 respondents including married and unmarried, as well as working and non-working Lepcha women residing in the village based on Interview Schedule Method. Finally an empowerment score has been developed by adding the scores of selected indicators of empowerment.