Women tend to develop talent (9)
I believe the answer is:
endowment
'talent' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'women tend to develop' is the wordplay.
'to develop' indicates an anagram.
'women'+'tend'='womentend'
'womentend' is an anagram of 'ENDOWMENT'.
(Other definitions for endowment that I've seen before include "A bequest of funding" , "Personal quality - type of mortgage" , "Natural talent -- won't emend (anag)" , "Bequeathed income" , "Income/property settled on person/institution" .)