My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

The line reframes “women’s liberation” as part of a broader human problem rather than a single-sex grievance. Gandhi suggests that social roles, expectations, and inherited traditions constrain men as well as women—men may hold more formal power, yet they can be bound by duties of breadwinning, authority, and emotional restraint. Read this way, the quote argues that genuine emancipation requires changing the structures that assign rigid gender roles, not merely transferring privileges from one group to another. It also implies a political stance: reforms aimed at equality should be understood as enlarging freedom for society as a whole, not as a zero-sum contest between men and women.