Online Classes and Working Mothers Conception as Educators: an Expository Study

Abstract

Women have additional barriers and challenges to reentering the workforce and childcare is one among them. The Pandemic lockdown is ending up putting tons of stress on parents primarily working mothers of India. When schools are closed and conducting classes through the web mode urged the oldsters to facilitate the training of youngsters’ reception and struggle to perform their task. The online learning during the pandemic requires active guidance from parents especially mothers. It add additional burden for women. For several working mothers the pandemic is upending their work and life balance and affecting their physical and psychological state. Working mothers have huge stress of handling their children online classes. The additional workload and anxiety are heaped upon the already multifaceted responsibilities of working mothers who already live in the edge of burnout in meeting the cooking, caring of family members and their work environment responsibilities. Based on the above background the objectives of this study are, to analyse the management ways of online classes for active learning of their children, to trace out the stress factor about the online classes among the working mothers, to study the behavioral changes among children in online class mode and to measure the depressive symptoms among the working mothers.

The sample for the present study was consisted of 148. In the present study working mothers of private and government concern were taken. As the data collection isn't possible from the whole population of virudhunagar district due to the limited resources and time. Purposive sampling technique was chosen to get information representing the characteristics of the population.