Introduction: In this modern society both men and women experience various patterns of stress. The stress faced by married employed women commonly referred to as a dual stress has drawn the attention of the researchers. As compared with the employed mothers unemployed mothers get more time to look after their children and family so that the child is expected to get timely attention and care required for their physical and mental development. Recent studies shows that working women still do the majority of the house work with child care taking priority over other chores. Many sacrifice leisure time and sleep to manage. Method: A quantitative approach, nonexperimental comparative survey design was adopted. A total 100 samples (50 employed mothers and 50 unemployed mothers) were selected by using nonprobable purposive sampling techniques, the target population were mothers of school going children and the accessible population were those who are in Nagaur city. The questionnaires were prepared under two sections.Section ‘A’was ondemographic variables; section ‘B’ was on stress and coping strategies. The data was collected after getting consent from the mothers. Survey techniques were adopted and self-administered questionnaire was provided to each mother for the duration of 20-30 minutes. And data was compiled and tabulated for descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: Major findings of the study revealed that employed mothers had more stress than unemployed mothers in relation to physical, psychosocial and academic needs of children. Percentage distribution of stressors among employed mothers of school going children showed that 9.1% had always stress in relation to physical needs, 3.6% in relation to psychosocial needs and 11.6% in relation to academic needs of children. Among unemployed mothers majority (82.6%) had no stress in relation to academic needs of the child, whereas, only 4.0% always had stress in meeting the physical needs of their children but not in psychosocial and academic needs. Most of the employed and unemployed mothers used adaptive coping strategies in meeting the physical, psychosocial and academic needs of their children. Among the unemployed mothers 22% were used adaptive coping strategies in relation to physical needs whereas only 4.8% were used maladaptive coping strategies in relation to psychosocial needs. Discussion: This present study is supported by various other similar studies. It was found that employed mothers had more stress than unemployed mothers in meeting physical, psychosocial and academic needs of their children. Majority of employed and unemployed mothers used adaptive coping strategies in relation to fulfilling various needs of their children. Conclusion: Employed and unemployed mothers need to get more awareness regarding stress which they undergo while dealing with various aspects of dayto- day life especially in meeting the needs of their school going children. And there was a need to enhance more adaptive coping strategies and mustreduce maladaptive coping strategies.

Key words: Stress; Coping; School Going Children; Employed Mothers; Unemployed Mothers and School.