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Today on Outlook, one of Britain's most successful businesswomen, Dame Stephanie Shirley, describes the agony of bringing up her autistic child in the 1960s.

She talks about the prejudice she encountered and how it felt to be branded a 'refrigerator mother'.

And a fresh challenge for another pioneering woman, Australian sailor Jessica Watson, who is to lead a team of teenage sailors on one of the world's toughest ocean races.