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Recent research shows teachers report their job being very stressful OECD TALIS The Covid-19 pandemic caused many changes in education which put teachers under additional strain Sokal Trudel Babb 2020 Female teachers in Slovak primary education outnumber male teachers by a ratio of 9-to-1 Even though women spend as much time in work as men women s involvement in household chores is more than double This creates an even greater challenge The paper has several aims the first aim is an examination of the stress level of primary school female teachers during the pandemic The second aim is an examination of the intensity of measured stressors The third aim is to compare work stress in female and male teachers The fourth aim is to investigate the role of variables age work experience education stage on work stress The research sample consisted of 473 teachers 426 female According to results over 58 of female teachers reported quite a bit 34 or a lot of 24 7 experienced work stress Overall female teachers perceived most stress in stressors having too much administrative work to do uncertainty associated with frequent changes in education caused by pandemic and social acknowledgment Female teachers compared to male teachers experienced significantly more stress in several stressors for example being held responsible for students achievement and perfectionism Younger and less experienced female teachers perceived significantly more stress in specific stressors 2nd stage female teachers experienced more stress in specific sources of stress compared to 1st stage female teachers

Alexander Loziak

Institute of Social Sciences of the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Work Stress of Female Primary School Teachers During Covid-19 Pandemic and Demographic Differences