Indigenous entrepreneurship and the gender approach to entrepreneurship are areas that have grown in
interest in the entrepreneurship literature in recent years. This paper combines both research streams
with the aim of analysing the social and individual factors affecting indigenous quechua female
entrepreneurs of Bolivia. Based on the analysis of qualitative data from forty-two face-to-face
interviews to indigenous entreprenerurs (female and male), the specific characteristics of these
entrepreneurs, the barriers and the facilitators of entrepreneurial activities by women, as well as the
role of social capital were extracted. The existence of a sexist and patriarchal culture has been found.
However, regarding production, family becomes the production unit; the woman and the man have
specific and complementary roles. In addition, there is growing individualism that results in a loss of
indigenous values.
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