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Halfway through November, Indira Gandhi and Elizabeth I are joint leaders of BBC News Online's poll to find the greatest woman of the millennium.
It is a close race so make your choice on the voting form below. If you need ideas, two prominent women have nominated their top 10 lists. Cabinet Office minister Mo Mowlam put Emmeline Pankhurst at number one, while anti-landmine campaigner Jody Williams chose Eleanor Roosevelt.
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1. Emmeline Pankhurst 2. Indira Gandhi 3. Barbara Castle 4. Elizabeth I 5. Maya Angelou 6. Jane Austen 7. George Eliot 8. Billie Holiday 9. Marie Stopes 10.Catherine the Great More on Mo Mowlam's choices>> |
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| Mo Mowlam Marjorie Mowlam is one of the most popular politicians in the UK government.
As Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1997-99 she was widely credited with helping establish a new ceasefire that led to round-table negotiations and the setting up of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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1. Eleanor Roosevelt 2. Rosa Parks 3. Susan B. Anthony 4. Jane Addams 5. Joan of Arc 6. Elizabeth I 7. Aung San Suu Kyi 8. Helen Keller 9. Marie Curie 10. Everywoman More on Jody Williams's choices>> |
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| Jody Williams Nobel laureate Jody Williams has co-ordinated the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) since 1991.
A week before she and the ICBL jointly received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, 122 nations signed the Ottawa Treaty outlawing the production of landmines. The treaty was made international law on 1 March 1999.
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