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'''Jyoti Mhapsekar''' (born c. 1950) is an [[India]]n award winner. She worked as a librarian and a playwright. She is known for her role as founder and President of [[Stree Mukti Sanghatana]]. She has won awards including the [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]].

==Life==
Both of her Mhapsekar's parents were freedom fighters before she was born in about 1950. She attended two schools that her mother had helped to create for the poor. She went to college where she graduated in zoology and library science<ref name=ash/> and she later gained post graduate qualifications in sociology.<ref name=wsds/>

In 1975 she and six other women founded the [[Stree Mukti Sanghatana]] (Women's Liberation Movement).<ref name=ash/> In 1983 she wrote a play titled ''Mulgi Zhali Ho'' which investigated the issues raised by Stree Mukti Sanghatana. It was performed in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and later in other languages. The play raised the issue of the secondary status of women during the entertainment but the education message was that if it was going to be changed then action was required.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Parpart|first1=Jane L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alI-fc8fyS0C&pg=PT273&dq=mulgi+zali+ho#q=mulgi%20zali%20ho|title=Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World|last2=Rai|first2=Shirin M.|last3=Staudt|first3=Kathleen A.|date=2003-08-29|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-47211-6|language=en}}</ref>

She became an [[Ashoka fellow]] in 2001.<ref name=ash>{{Cite web|title=Jyoti Mhapsekar {{!}} Ashoka {{!}} Everyone a Changemaker|url=https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow/jyoti-mhapsekar|access-date=2020-07-09|website=www.ashoka.org|language=en-us}}</ref>

She has been a published playwright and she joined the organisation known as International Women Playwrights. She was an organiser and in November 2009 she was on the committee that organised that years international meeting in Mumbai.<ref>{{Cite web|title=India Hosts 8th International Women Playwrights' Conference... Registrations Open : www.MumbaiTheatreGuide.com|url=https://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/Articles/09/oct/09-india-hosts-8yj-international-women-playrights.asp#|access-date=2020-07-09|website=www.mumbaitheatreguide.com}}</ref>

She was the Chief Librarian at the Academy of Architecture but she retired from this to concentrate on her other interests.<ref name=wsds>{{Cite web|date=2018|title=Jyoti Mhapsekar - President - Stree Mukti Sanghatana ( Women's Liberation Organisation)|url=http://wsds.teriin.org/2018/bio/Jyoti-Mhapsekar.pdf|access-date=9 July 2020|website=World Sustainable Development Summit 2021}}</ref> She became the President of the Stree Mukti Sanghatana.<ref name=wow/>
Mhapsekar was chosen to receive the [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]] on International Women's Day in 2016. The award was made by President [[Pranab Mukherjee]] at the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan|Presidential palace]] in New Delhi. Another fourteen women and seven institutions were honoured that day.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-03-08|title=Give women freedom to exercise choices at home, workplace: President Pranab Mukherjee|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/give-women-freedom-to-exercise-choices-at-home-workplace-president-pranab-mukherjee/articleshow/51312597.cms?from=mdr|access-date=2020-07-09}}</ref>

==Awards==
She was a nominee for L'Oreal's Women of Worth awards in 2016.<ref name=wow>{{Cite web|date=2016-02-10|title=Women of Worth: About the Nominee - Jyoti Mhapsekar|url=https://sites.ndtv.com/women-of-worth/nominee-jyoti-mhapsekar/|access-date=2020-07-09|website=Women Of Worth|language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
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