Background: Malnutrition is a universal problem that affects most of the world’s population at some point in their lifespan, from infancy to old age. Care is crucial for child nutritional status. Women are often the primary caregivers as they have significant control over aspects critical for child well-being; including food preparation and storage, feeding practices, psychosocial care, hygiene and health practices, and newborn care. Thus, their empowerment can influence nutritional status of their children. Objective: To determine the nutritional status of children aged 6-59 months and its association with women’s empowerment in rural kebeles of Bahir Dar, North west Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among mother’s having children 6-59 months in rural kebeles of Bahir Dar city from February 10 to March 21, 2019.Multistage sampling technique was used to select the desired sample and a total of 619 samples were selected. Data were coded and entered in to Epi-data version 3.1 and was exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Binary and multivariable logistic regression analysis were used to assess the association between the dependent variables with each independent variables. Odds ratios together with 95% CI was used to report associations. Pvalue < 0.05 was considered for statistical significance. Result: A total of 582 mothers who have children aged 6-59 month participated obtaining 94% response rate. Mothers who were in low empowerment level were about six times (AOR=6.023; 95% CI: 1.227-29.549) more likely to have wasted children as compared to mothers who were in high empowerment level. Mothers who were moderately empowered were 44% less likely to have stunted children (AOR=0.559; 95% CI: 0.365-0.857) as compared to highly empowered mothers. However, mother’s empowerment level had no significant association with children’s underweight and overweight status. Conclusion: It is concluded that Women empowerment was significantly associated with wasting and stunting. However, there was no significant association observed between empowerment and underweight and overweight. Key words: women’s empowerment, nutritional status, malnutrition, under five children.