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.
On December 17, some 500,000 women voted for the first time in a federal election, which was won by Borden's coalition government. In the spring of 1918, the government extended the right to vote to Canadian women 21 years of age and older - with Borden saying they would exert a good influence on public life.