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.
Women got the right to vote at different times in different countries. In the USA, the 19th amendment was passed in 1920, though several states had already given women the right to vote, beginning with Wyoming in 1869. In the UK, women over 30 got the vote in 1918, and women over 21 in 1928.