“…However, when the women returned to work, they said it was not necessary readapting to the functions and reported that they were assisted by the industry during work leave. The study group was composed of women, mostly young, with more than eight years of education, and average monthly family income of R$ 1,662.34, according to the classification used by the IBGE, they belonged to class C1, characterized by average family income of R$ 1,391.00, unlike the group studied in Ceará (4) , where two factors: the access to education is higher in the South Region of Brazil than in the Northeast, and in the studied area the demand for workers for the textile industry is less than the job supply, leading to a strong competition for labor force and hence higher salaries, unlike observed in a study conducted in Blumenau (5) , where there is prevalence of informal small factories established in houses, with intense working hours, low pay, lack of security and assistance to the workers in this sector.…”