O Trabalho doméstico e a Saúde das Mulheres Negras

Abstract

The resarch proposed here aims to discuss and analyse the intersection of variable gender, race, health and work, focusing on the health domestic workers. This is a bibliographical reviews that discussion is based on scientific production produced by professionals in the area of Social Psychology and Worker's Health. The perspective of the intersectionality discussed here is suitable with the numbers presented by domestic professional exercise in Brazil, which is 5.9 million domestic workers, where the women represented 94.7% of domestic workers in 2003 and 94.5% in 2009, and, 62.0% of domestic workers were black or brown in all metropolitan areas. The proportion of black or brown domestic workers was higher than the employed population. Professional domestic work in Brazil carries vestiges of the slavery period, being perpetuated and maintained by unequal social conditions from the same period, through exclusionary and discriminatory policies, which has racism as the main agent of social control. The methodological choice quest to explain how is it scientifically painted the domestic work and its implications on the health of the workers who ecercise it professionally, especially for black women.