It was made possible because the movement did not contest ladies’s ‘femininity’ or their conventional function in society, at a time when most females were still limited to the zenana or were behind the ghoonghat While Gandhi still promoted the conventional perception of women as somehow being innately endowed with humility and as being subservient, he nevertheless motivated ladies to join the freedom movement in big numbers. “So long as ladies in India do not take equivalent part with men in the affairs of the world, and in spiritual and political matters, we will not see India’s star increasing,” he stated at a lady’s conference in Bombay.
