Gifted young women face a variety of important social and emotional issues throughout adolescence and passage into adulthood. This article presents a number of issues through four themes: gender role expectations, relationship-oriented problems, achievement and underachievement concerns, and the need for resilience in women's lives. The authors propose guided reading of biographies as a counseling strategy through which middle and high school educators may assist gifted females in gaining helpful insights to deal with the problems they face. The article also provides available biographies of gifted females, as well as various ways secondary teachers and counselors might use such an approach to counsel gifted young women.
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