Employment, gender equality, and women's empowerment can boost tourism's sustainability. The tourism business is dominated by women, but it still has a lot of serious imbalances. To identify solutions, it's important to study women's empowerment research. This article examines how academic research addresses women's empowerment in tourism. Systematic review of papers on empowerment of women in tourism published in google scholar and science direct was employed to attain this purpose. Despite an increase in publications about empowerment of women in tourism from one year to the next, the study shows that there are still very few studies on this issue, and that these studies have only lately been related to the family. The study demonstrates that few journals and authors focus on women's empowerment in tourism.