Coping mechanisms of new graduate female instructors to deal with their challenges: the case of bahir dar university

Women in the world have a huge contribution for the economic, political and social development of nations. Teaching is one of the social aspect wherein women are involved. In the Ethiopian context, the participation of women in teaching, especially in higher education has been growing from time to time. However, information about how to cope up their challenges is not well studied. Acquainted of this gap, this study attempted to explore the coping mechanisms of new graduate female instructors for their challenges by taking Bahir Dar University as a case in point. To meet the objective of the study, qualitative method with the case study design was used. In this study, fifteen semi structure interviewees were participated. All of the participants were selected by using non probability sampling technique specifically purposive sampling. Therefore, the data sources were primary data. The data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis methods. The findings from the study revealed that new graduate female instructors used different strategies to deal with their problems. Such as, Keeping silent, seriousness, student and peer evaluation, spend free time at home, share office, withholding information about their profession. From the finding we can conclude that new graduate female instructors used various coping mechanisms to cope up there challenges.