The average AFL wage is $230,000 per season. While appearing exorbitant â it is not a pittance either â the figure is hardly enormous when you compare it with other sports. Players in the NHL, NBA and English Premier League, for example, all enjoy greater financial riches.
In Europe the Nordic countries were pioneers in womenâs suffrage. The first European nation to give women the vote was Finland in 1906. Women in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then an autonomous part of the Russian Empire, won the right to be elected members of the eduskunta, the Finnish unicameral parliament, in 1907.
 US: 18 August 1920: the 19th amendment giving women the  right to vote was passed. On August 26, 1920, when the 19th  Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified.  Women in general were allowed to vote in local elections from  1910.