The obstacles and challenges faced by gifted women is the topic of a free lecture to be delivered at noon Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the University of California, Davis. "Gifted Women: The Problems They Face, the Choices They Make" will be delivered in MU II of the Memorial Union by Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, the vice provost for faculty relations and a professor of psychology at UC Davis. The talk is the first in the Spotlight on UC Davis Women Scholars lecture series, sponsored by the Women's Resources and Research Center. Tomlinson-Keasey will address the problems encountered by gifted women from high school through mid-life as they enter fields dominated by men. She will discuss how they balance society's expectations and their own ambitions, and explain how their choices reflect particular aspects of contemporary society. She also will talk about ways that society can help gifted women realize their intellectual potential. A licensed psychologist, Tomlinson-Keasey is working on a book titled "Gifted Women: Predicting Their Life Paths." She has written several articles and two books, "A Child's Eye View" and "Child Development: Psychological, Socio-cultural and Biological Factors." Tomlinson-Keasey received her doctoral degree in developmental psychology from UC Berkeley. She was professor and chair of the psychology department at UC Riverside before coming to UC Davis.