The Mathura rape case came to light in the background of a number of other cases across the country, like that of Laxmi in Punjab, Rameezabee and Shakeelabee in Hyderabad. In the late 1970’s women's organisation from all over the country came out to protest against the Supreme Court judgment in the Mathura case. This was followed by intensive press coverage and debates in public forums. The movement created a situation which made it impossible for the government to ignore the autonomous women's movement. One of the main reasons why this movement was so successful and able to achieve so such in such a short period of time was due to the fact that it involved huge numbers of women. These women were mainly from the middle and upper middle economic classes. The organisations involved with the Anti Rape struggle essentially demanded re-opening of certain rape cases, the amendment of existing rape laws in order to sensitize it etc. This movement can be seen as a forerunner of the Vishaka struggle. The larger achievement of this movement was to highlight the personal problems of women, instead of only concentrating on economic problems. The Vishaka case involved a writ petition filed by a group of NGO’S demanding that the Supreme Court issue guidelines to prevent Sexual Harassment in the workplace in light of the Bhanwari Devi Case. Bhanwari an employee of the Rajasthan women’s development scheme was raped by upper caste men of her village in order to avenge the reforms Bhanwari tried to introduce in the village by reporting child marriage to the police and attempting to initiate other reforms in the community. She finally lost the case in both the session’s court and the High Court due to alleged corruption in the judicial system and a nexus between the accused and local politicians. This case was responsible for one of the most significant women’s protest movement’s in India.

It was in some sense what succeeded in making the personal the political in India. This again may be one of the main reasons behind the ‘individualization’ of the movement. A feminist perspective had been introduced into what was till then a movement to gather and mobilize women to come out into the public sphere. As a result of this only in the 1970’s did gender begin to be recognized as an instrument of social discrimination.