A Comparative Study on Male and Female Teachers’ Job Satisfaction at SecondarLevel in Bangladesh
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Comparative Picture, Gender Difference, Job Satisfaction, Secondary LevelAbstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the job satisfaction of male and female teachers in Bangladeshi secondary schools. This study used a survey questionnaire with 6 statements and a five point ‘Likert’ scale ranged from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’. The questionnaire was developed based on the Teacher Job Satisfaction (TJS) Scale stated by Tunmer et al. (2013) and it was administered to 400 teachers of 100 secondary schools from 4 districts. The majority of teachers were dissatisfied with their jobs, according to the study’s major findings. Male teachers showed disagree response (M<3.00) against 4 statements and female teachers tended to be disagreed with 3 statements. Mean scores of the responses of female teachers were higher than male against 5 statements. For male teachers, the highest agree response (M=3.24) belonged to the statement “I am proud of the work I do” and the statement that received the highest agree response for female teachers was “I am going to continue teaching as long as I can” (M=3.77). Standard Deviations (SD) of the responses against almost all of the statements did not differ much (SD<0.50), indicating that the average distance between the data points was small. Education policy makers and school administrators should have access to the major findings of this study so they can take proper initiatives to address gender disparities in teachers’ job satisfaction.
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