[1][2] In 1984, Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, along with Urvashi Butalia, her longtime collaborator.
In 2003, Kali for Women shut shop due to lack of commercial viability compounded by irreconcilable personal differences between Menon and Butalia.
Thereafter, Menon independently founded Women Unlimited, another feminist publishing house.
“It became a form of putting down what I was going through, remembering, thinking, reading, and worrying about,” she says (13 July 2021).
[5] In 2000-2001, she served on the International Advisory Board of the Raja Rao Award for Literature.