ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with women primary teachers' strategies, their ways of going about things and achieving their goals. In the particular external conditions of expansion or contraction and negotiating the facilities and limitations of the primary teaching labour market, how do women teachers in primary education manage their careers and their personal aims, what strategies are developed to enable these women to work at their careers and, at the same time, meet the expectations they set themselves for their personal lives, usually to marry and frequently also to have their own children. The chapter explains the concept of strategy in sociological and educational research. It is important to emphasize that by examining the strategies whereby individuals achieve certain goals, personal as well as work goals, the emphasis can be on career as a continually developing process as aims are being created and redefined and as specific constraints come and go.
