I take issue with the idea that one must be an "extraordinary achiever or performer," or one is therefore not gifted. Hogwash. There are a million reasons why one might not be such (LDs, poverty, abuse, racism, mental illness, bad luck, lack of desire to achieve in conventional ways, a wish to focus on other things...you yourself seem to think that gifted women's life focus should perhaps be on raising children). It doesn't mean the ability is gone.

It was also my understanding that the general wisdom was that one cannot "get lucky" on a long-form IQ test.