ABSTRACT
Women teachers will have responsibilities in at least two spheres: the public sphere of work and the private sphere of home and family. The difficulties of fulfilling work and family commitments become particularly acute when there are children in the family; when, in addition to maintaining the home, herself and husband, the woman is responsible for the care, safe-keeping and emotional stability of the children of the marital union. Childcare also involves a strong emotional commitment, a love attachment that includes an intense, close and sustained relationship between the mother and child. The career history accounts of the women headteachers illustrated several advantages that attached to primary teaching as a job of work. Women teachers are responding to general assumptions about the duties of 'a good mother' and 'a good teacher'. Women primary teachers in the career history study managed childcare by making use of their own resources and conditions and facilities in their work as primary teachers.
