The present paper deals the A Study of occupational stress among female teachers working in secondary schools. Teaching profession can be identified as a stressful occupation in this modern challenging world which can adversely affect the health of the teachers which in turn affects the students and the learning environment. In this respect, female school teachers usually faced lots of occupational stress particularly the married female teachers as they have to play multiple roles both at homes and schools. In this paper, attempts have been made to identify the main causes of occupational stress among the female teachers of secondary schools and the ways for preventing and minimizing the same. Stress due to inadequate salary has been seen among the female teachers who work under privately run schools. Stress while managing students' behaviour in the classroom and large class size are seen to be the most common causes of teachers' stress in the secondary schools.