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.
The Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was passed in Congress in 1919 and ratified by the states a year later. Virginia, however, delayed its ratification until 1952. By then, women had been voting and, slowly, winning elected office in the state for more than 30 years.