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 werenât allowed to vote until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. In fact, it took womenâs rights activists at least 70 years to win this right. In early America, women werenât allowed the same rights as men. Married women could neither own property nor legally claim any money they might earn. They also lacked the right to vote. The womenâs rights movement to win the right to vote didnât organize itself as a national fight until 1848. When the American Civil War broke out, the movement lost some momentum. Womenâs rights reformers strongly objected to the 15th Amendment that would give black men the right to vote but no women irrespective of skin color. In 1869, Wyoming Territory decreed that all female residents aged 21 years and above could vote.