Teaching Professional Stressors: An Empirical Research with reference to Female Teachers working in Private Schools

Abstract

Teaching profession was once viewed as a very low stress work, it was known for low workload, it had been envied for tenure, looked at a very highly respectable profession and so on. But, off late, studies proved that the teaching profession is considered as the most stressful occupation. Surprisingly, this profession distinguishes itself into various sub categories, viz., stressors vary between the government and the private schools and amongst them, another variation amongst the male and the female employees. In view of the above facts in place, this study has examined the key stressors that play a vital role in cumulating the Work Stress amongst the teachers thereby affecting the productivity of an individual as well as the organization The study is aimed in analyzing the stress levels between the male teachers and the female teachers from the various literature studies. The size of the sample taken for the study is fixed as 500 with the population being teachers within the city of Chennai of both private and government schools. The study is carried out for research purpose and the analysis is done as it is a crisis scenario building up gradually at all the levels of the teaching profession.