Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

When compared with women of other nations, Finnish women, who accounted for just over 50 percent of the population in the mid1980s, did have a privileged place.

In a number of areas, however, the country's small feminist movement maintained that the circumstances in which Finnish women lived needed to be improved.

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A 1994 review of 5, 133 Finnish men and women aged 30 – 69 years suggested that increased dietary intake of vitamin E was associated with decreased mortality ( death ) from heart disease.

Because the sauna was often the cleanest structure and had water readily available, Finnish women also gave birth in the sauna.

The world's first female members of parliament were also Finnish, when on 1907, 19 women took up their places in the Parliament of Finland as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections.

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During the 20th century also, the majority of Finnish women entered the workforce, and most of the dishes requiring long preparation time were reserved for holidays.

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Kyöpelinvuori ( Finnish for ghosts ' mountain ), in Finnish mythology, is the place which dead women haunt.

Lotta Svärd was a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women.

Since 4 January 1995 women between the ages of 18 and 29 have had the right to apply for voluntary military service in the Finnish Defence Forces and are free to apply into any form of service, which is granted provided they fulfill the minimum fitness and health requirements.

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In the old Finnish system, women were standardly given matronyms, while men were given patronyms, for example, Ainontytär ( female ) or Pekanpoika ( male ).

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A. McDonald visited the Hoito and Finnish Labour Temple in 1926, " it was the activities of the women that he was most impressed by.

Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian ( by Laza Kostic ), German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.

After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.

Once these laws were passed, Finnish authorities signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, in 1986.

Until the 1930s, the Finnish economy was predominantly agrarian, and, as late as in the 1950s, more than half the population and 40 percent of output were still in the primary sector.

Finnish data for the early 1980s showed that 30 to 40 percent of those in occupations not requiring much education were the children of farmers, as were about 25 percent in upper-level occupations, a rate two to three times that of France and noticeably higher than that even of neighbouring Sweden.

Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

The main factors behind the Finnish Civil War were World War I, the collapse of the Russian Empire, and the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

All Finnish adults were given the right to vote, increasing the number of voters from 126, 000 to 1, 273, 000.

The events of July 1917 did not bring about the Red Revolution in January 1918 on their own, but together with political development based on the labour movement's interpretation of the ideas of fennomania and socialism since the 1880's, these events were decisive for the nature, content, and goals of a Finnish revolution.

Finnish conservatives were concerned over Germany and Russia's intent to conduct armistice and peace negotiations, fearing this would restrict Germany's ability to provide assistance to the White Finns.

The majority of Finnish socialists, however, were moderate and preferred parliamentary methods, prompting Lenin to label them " reluctant revolutionaries.

The economic collapse of Russia and the political power struggle of the Finnish state during 1917 were among the key factors that brought sovereignty to the fore in Finland.

In addition, the White Guard leadership were uncertain whether common troopers drafted from the small-sized and poor farms of central and northern Finland had strong enough motivation to fight the Finnish Reds.

Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.

After peace talks between the Germans and the Finnish Reds were broken off on 11 April, the true battle for the capital of Finland began.

Around 8, 000-9, 000 Finnish Reds defended Helsinki ; their best troops, however, were located in the more northern main front of the 1918 war.

Both Himanen and Torvalds were inspired by the Sampo in Finnish mythology.

After World War II, Finland lost the Karelia region to the USSR, and all Finnish citizens were evacuated from the ceded territory.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

After the Baltic states were forced to accept treaties, Stalin turned his sights on Finland, confident that Finnish capitulation could be attained without great effort.

Everyone was killed except Corto, who was seriously wounded by Finnish defense forces as they were landing the helicopter.