Atene Femenino was founded in La Paz by Maria Luisa Sanchez Bustamente de Uricoste in 1923.
The Atene Femenino was founded by white upper-class women inspired by a similar organization in Chile.
[1] The Atene Femenino was, for a long time, not successful and met with compact opposition and a lack of understanding that women could aspire to anything but being a housewife.
The suffrage movement were managed by the two women's organizations and mostly by personal requests made to influential males related to the suffragists.
They were not successful, since most Bolivian women at this time were conservative and the feminists were but a small educated elite minority.