This paper examines the question of female labor, taking as a reference the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (RMS). Using data of the Employment and Unemployment Research of the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (PED/RMS), we study the participation of woman in the labor market and her income formation, trying to establish under the econometric point of view the principles determinants and restrictions that lead the women to look for a job in that market. Besides that, this essay also studied the probability of woman to participate in the labor force, through a logit model, as means of distinguish the main elements that influence the individual decision of woman to take a job in the labor market. The econometric results reveal that the more inclined women to look for a job in the labor market are those that do not have other incomes, show a lower level of schooling and a higher experience. Besides, the woman that are more willing to work are the young black ones that are head of family. Despite a grater insertion of woman in the labor market, verified in the last years, the results showed that a larger proportion of women that participate in the labor force are exactly those with a lower schooling. It means that a larger part of women with higher schooling do not participate in the labor force, probably to do the noble task to educate your children, contributing in this way to establish a precarious condition for the female labor.
