The economic emancipation of women takes women empowerment in an absolute sense. The equality of men and women in the workplace is about work distribution and financial equality. Equality also lies in meeting the professional demands and rewards one achieves in the workplace. In India, it has been a trend for Indian women to leave their professional careers to meet family demands, and women only must sacrifice their professional careers for centuries. It is indeed questionable. Indian English fiction, since its birth, has presented the plight of women in society and has portrayed the status of women. With the shift of time, Indian novelist has shifted their focal point more to the economic empowerment of women as economic emancipation is the ultimate growth as it enhances the possibility to face the world with courage and confidence. The issue raised by the classic feminist writer Virginia Woolf and the metaphor “The women must have money and a room if she is to write fiction” indicates the space and monetary freedom women must get if she is to equate men. The paper aims to trace the need for economic freedom for women for the development of a country and the light of the consequences the women characters face due to lack of economic freedom in The God of Small Things and how with the change of time, women of Arundhati Roy in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness showcases a paradigm shift and meets the challenges of life and intermits submitting themselves with mute resignation to male supremacy