PROFESSIONAL STATUS, ROLE ADJUSTMENT AND CONFLICT OF WORKING WOMAN: A STUDY OF SCHOOL TEACHESRS

The setting in which a professional functions has a great deal of relevance for role-playing. In actual situations a particular setting may or may not be adequately facilitating for the proper role-playing of the professional. His/her success or failure in this regard can reasonably be attributed, at least in part, to the factor in setting. A study of role-activities of a category of professionals, therefor, entails a discussion of their professional settings. Professional needs to have adequate access to certain equipment or facilities for proper and effective role-performance. The work conditions of the teachers can also be viewed as a part of their professional setting. The quantum of teaching workload the teachers have; number of courses they have to teach; and other extra-academic duties, which they have to do, are crucially consequential for their professional activities. A teacher overburdened with the institutionally assigned teaching and non-teaching work may find him/her worn out to do his/her teaching work intellectually effective or to involve himself/herself in other intellectual activities. This paper is an endeavour to make study of professional status, role adjustment and role conflict of working women of selected secondary school teachers.