Feminist poverty is not only consequence of lack o.f income, but also the result of the deprivationrnor capabilities and gender biases present in both societies and governments. Similarly, inrnEthiopia the women particularly thefemale headed households face political, social and culturalrnchallenges that undermine their human worth and dignity. Additionally, they suffer fromrneconomic poverty. social discrimination, and prevention to vote. This paper makes an (Il1empt torninvesligale Ihe de/erminanls of livelihood choices and women economic empowerment inrnEthiopia by examining the situation prevailing in one particll/ar wereda ki/te Awlaelo in Tigrayrnregion using the information gained from 196 women. Since the livelihood choices and therneconomic empowerment level is determined by different demographic and socioeconomicrnfactors, this paper allempts multinomial 'Iogistic regression analysis to explore the possiblerndeterminant.lÂ· or livelihood choices and Tobit model analysis to explore the possible determinantsrnIt or Ihe economic empowerment level based on primm)' data Fom Kilte Awlaelo Woreda. Thernresult shows that livelihood choices is considerably influenced by age, family size, education,rnaccess to media, asset holdings, marital stalUs, job training, access to credit service, access tornse(f help group, access to safety nets and transportation service. The result also shows that therneconomic empowerment level is also considerably influenced by age, family size, education,rnaccess to media, asset holdings, marital status, livelihood option choice, job training, access tornrncredil service, access 10 self help group, access 10 S({/e ly nel, access 10 women group andrnIransporlalion service. Apart from the other economic empowerment variables, a variablernlivelihood choice shows significant positive impact on the economic empowerment level.rnAddilionally. the result checked the independency of asset holdings of the household acrossrndifferent livelihood oplions like jimning. trade and daily labar through chi square test, so the testrnsuggests that livelihood asset is dependenr on livelihood option choice. Besides, ANOVA testrnlIsed and indicated as different livelihood choices provide different economic empowerment levelrnal less than 5% confidence level. Finally, il recommended that the economic empowerment canrnbe improved by concentrating on the negative factors, which affects the rural women of thernworeda, and consequently poverty levels will be reduced