Effectiveness of Work-From-Home on Female College Teaching Staff Members During the Pandemic: A Theoretical Perspective

Abstract

The Covid-19 has transformed many workplaces including schools and colleges dramatically, in which many teachers widespread all over the world became work from home employees (WFH) This paper aims to explore about the impact of work from home female teaching staff specifically in pandemic times. The paper examines from various theories and articles to explain about effectiveness of education at that time and challenges faced by the teaching staffs. Theories like gender role theory, social exchange theory, COR theory and self determination theory helps the author analyse the experience of those staff during pandemic. These will highlight domestic responsibility of staffs, how they are balancing between workplace and home, how they fix boundaries between their mental health and work, and so on. The paper provides a comprehensive overview of various researches including Indian studies to assess research gaps. It helps to study the role of management support during that time, to understand about institutional policy and support for the employees. Also to understand many challenges like workplace conflicts and stress faced at that time by the women teachers. By integrating all these perspectives, the paper provides an intense understanding about challenges faced by them and also provide some of the recommendations to support women teachers in the future