A Gender Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Satisfier Factors, and Job Dissatisfier Factors of Agricultural Education Teachers

Between 1970 and 1975, Knight (1978) found that 263 Ohio agriculture teachers left the profession for reasons other than retirement or death. Similarly, Morgan (1988) concluded that approximately 11 percent of all secondary agriculture teachers left the profession annually for reasons other then death or retirement. Is there a casual link between leaving the profession and job satisfaction ? If one can hypothesize that there is a causal link, then it becomes important that agricultural educators assess the level of job satisfaction among agriculture teachers.