Popular opinion suggests that teaching is a stressful profession. A dissenting view is supported in this investigation of women teachers in five Canadian provinces. Self-report attitudinal questionnaires containing 26 items were mailed to a sample of 940 elementary and secondary school principals in eight Western and Eastern Canadian provinces. Each principal was instructed to give questionnaires to two female teachers on the staff. Eleven hundred and twenty-eight (60%) questionnaires were returned. Findings indicated that the magnitude of perceived stress seems to be inversely proportional to years of experience and is statistically related most often to the pressures of work. Most women teachers do not use their income to purchase compensatory home-making services, but the limited results of this study did not support the original expectation that the purchase of home-making services per se reduces stress in women teachers. A tentative conclusion is made that anxiety is intrinsic to the individual and is relatively unaffected by a variety of activities commonly believed to moderate stress. A 22-item list of references and five tables of data are included. (Author/JD)