ABSTRACT
The unprecedented challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic tested people’s resilience. The abrupt change in the conventional delivery of teaching and other services of educational institutions caused a lot of adjustments that schools and their employees need to manage. Drawing from their own experiences as motivation, the authors investigated the resilience of Filipino working women from the academe during this extraordinary time. Using a mixed-method approach, open-ended questions to explore the participants' experiences and a resilience scale to assess their resilience were utilized. Three hundred twenty-six women employed in educational institutions served as participants. Results revealed individual and community resiliency characteristics that enabled the participants to deal with the challenges. The findings pointed out some implications for practitioners to foster the value of resilience in developing mental health programs for this population, especially during a pandemic outbreak. © 2021, Southeast Asian Association for Institutional Research. All rights reserved.