Teaching Professional Stress: An Empirical Study with Reference to Women in India

Women teachers in developed and developing countries face high levels of on the job and off-the job stress trying to balance the demands of office and home. Both these are “greedy” institutions demanding time and energy. Women teachers are walking the tight rope, trying to juggle many balls at the same time. At the work place the management of many educational institutions is ready to employ, qualified and capable women.  The woman teacher may consider resigning from the job altogether.  When many teaching staff from self-financing colleges and private schools leave it will lead to a “silent brain drain” a loss of qualified and experienced teachers for educational institutions already grappling with teacher shortage. The researcher has chosen this area of “faculty / teacher stress” for research and analysis as it is a crisis slowly building up.