Gender difference and organizational role stress in college teachers. An empirical study

Scientific Study from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, , language: English, abstract: The job environment is one of the most important aspects of today's world and may cause a great deal of stress. Due to the competitive nature of the job environment, most people in the world are spending their time on job-related work purposes, ignoring the work and life balance. Talking about gender differences at the workplace, is it correct to say that female workers have a dual duty and thus more stress as compared to their male counterparts? Teaching is a respectful profession. In teaching, female employment is stronger than male. The present paper studies and compares organizational role stress in college teachers in terms of gender. For the investigation, the author questioned 200 college teachers (100 male + 100 female) from different colleges of Patiala district. The findings showed that there is no significant difference in the level of organizational role stress of male and female college teachers.