External barriers such as lack of family support, stereotyping, and acculturation in home, school, and society, often interact with internal barriers such as self-doubt, lowered expectation, self-criticism and attribution of successes to effort instead of ability
External barriers, interaction of external and internal barriers, current statistics relating to females. Work, and accomplishments are discussed, and general recommendations on how to help gifted females to understand and address external barriers the development of their talent are provided