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International Women's Day celebrates famous females

12:00am Monday 15th March 2010 content supplied by Netmums

Anne Frank was voted the most inspiring female in the world from the last century, in a poll to find the most popular woman of history.

Readers of the Daily Mirror elected the teenage diarist and holocaust victim to prime position, followed closely by Princess Diana and Rosa Parks.

Other women in the top ten included the scientist behind IVF Anne McLaren, Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Marie Curie, Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison - who was crushed to death by the king's horse at Epsom while campaigning for women's right to vote.

The prime minister's wife, Sarah Brown, also listed women she finds inspirational in the paper, the first of which is Jasvinder Sanghera who escaped an arranged marriage to set up a charity to help others in the same position.

International Women's Day was first celebrated on March 19th 1911, according to the official website, which explains how the day evolved during the quest for female suffrage.

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