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.
It wasn't until August of 1920 that women were officially granted the right to vote in the form of an amendment to the Constitution. The 19th Amendment was the result of decades of efforts from women from all walks of life. It states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.