A native Bolivian woman offers assistance in locating Max.

Illiteracy of Bolivian women is also a possible cause, as women are unable to educate themselves about the laws that protect them.

Half of Bolivian women have experienced sexual, physical or psychological abuse by a partner.

Uterine disease and breast cancer are two leading causes of death for Bolivian women.

A 1983 survey found that over 70 percent of Bolivian women used no birth control method.

Similarly, Bolivian women lost out to men in the mechanisation of the mines.

Reported breastfeeding duration was also compared with how Bolivian women thought infants should be breastfed.

Resources must be made available to enable health care personnel to inform all Bolivian women about breastfeeding.

This is where Bolivian women come to try to escape the torments inflicted by their husbands and seek the modest protection of the state.

Within the country, young Bolivian women and girls from rural areas are subjected to forced prostitution in urban areas.