Chandrakala Anandrao Hate (pronounced Haa-tay) (1903–1990) (née Murkute) was a writer, feminist, social worker, and professor in Bombay, India.

Hate's work entailed studying and improving the status of women in Indian society.

in Economics and wrote Hindu Woman and Her Future (1948) for her Ph.D. thesis in Sociology, advised by the influential sociologist Dr. G. S. Ghurye.

[1] Kutumb Sakhi initially began as a group of women stitching petticoats from cloth purchased from a mill owned by the cricketer Vijay Merchant.

Hate's husband died early in her life, and she raised three sons on her own, playing an important role in the way she viewed much of society.