The Constitution of India as well as other laws have conferred equal rights and status on women. These however have not been actualised as yet. In every field, women occupy a secondary and subsidiary place. The role of the Stree Mukti Sanghatana is to help alleviate women in India from economic, social, political, cultural and psychological oppression.
All of Stree Mukti Sanghatana’s programs aim to create better conditions for women and defend their rights — through the Cultural Troupe, awareness campaigns, adolescent sensitisation, family counseling, day care centers, and Parisar Vikas.
Economic oppression keeps women in low-paid and subsidiary jobs. Social oppression perpetuates dowry and chauvinist attitudes. Political oppression keeps women’s representation low. Cultural oppression depicts women in weak, secondary and sex-object roles. And psychological oppression leads the woman herself to accept her secondary status. SMS works on all these fronts at once.