ABSTRACT.

The article sough to analyze considerations on the mental health of women workers as a theme in the Brazilian academic productions (2000-2016), in order to enhance contributions to the gender debate in the context of work relations and illness. Therefore, we performed a mapping of the Brazilian academic literature published from 2000 to 2016, available on the Virtual Health Library - Brazil, on the subject of woman worker health. From the total universe of articles located and analyzed throughout the research, mental health was the focus of a considerable number of studies, which showed, in general, the relationship between the sexual division of labor and the prevalence of illness among women in different contexts. In the direction of the proposed debate, 14 articles were selected because they relate the topic of mental health to professional contexts produced as female/male territories in which they operate and, above all, because they made it possible to problematize gender inequality as the basis of the sexual division of labor and prevalence of mental illness of women workers.

Keywords:
Mental health; labor; gender