Government Female School Teachers on Administrative Posts: Problems and Issues
Keywords:
Administrative Posts, Female School Teachers, School Education Department, PunjabAbstract
The present study was aimed at finding out the problems and issues due to which the government female school teachers are reluctant to join the administrative posts in education department at district level in the province of Punjab. It also tried to dig out the problems which are being faced by the female administrators while working. By using the purposive sampling technique, three districts of Punjab province were selected, i.e. Chakwal, Pakpattan and Sialkot and a sample of 45 respondents, i.e. 15 respondents from each of the three districts was drawn. The results of the study indicate that a majority of the females are not willing to work as administrators and those who work on such positions mainly face family and other related domestic problems and they want that the problems and the barriers related to their domestic matters must be resolved at the earliest. Those who refuse the offer of some administrative post believe that they lack the proper training regarding the tasks which they are supposed to undertake on administrative positions. Despite having the problems and issues at an immense echelon, they do not underestimate their potential and consider themselves fully capable of administering the key administrative posts.
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