Women are the more disadvantaged group, especially rural and backward classes and castes like SC/ST in India. In traditional male-dominated society, women historically struggled with all kinds of decision-making-equal participation in the community and traditional society. It has resulted in illiteracy, low levels of education, employment, political participation, discrimination, poor living like poverty and social exclusion. In the meantime, since independence, the government has implemented various policies as well as programmes aimed at promoting, especially for women's education, employment and equality across all sectors, consideration for women equal to men in the country. However, the current employment positions of women's participation rate are not equal as compared to men's. Nowadays, we are in the 21st century and a number of schemes and policies are implemented for women's development and empowerment. Its impact some percentages of reducing traditional employment and shifting traditional to modern employment with influence of urbanization increasing, education, skill and employment opportunities. In this backdrop, the present paper has mainly drawn attention to studying the barriers to women’s participation in the workforce in the Indian context. This study was used as per the availability of secondary level information.