The given column illustrates the average time spent by men and women at different levels of employment on household chores over a period of two decades.
Overall, it can be interpreted that unemployed women spent the most time on doing housework, while fully employed men spent the least amount of time doing choreos.
It can be seen that unemployed women spent the maximum time on housework in the three given years. They spent 7 hours per day in 1985 and 2005, and 6.5 hours a day in 1995. A little less time was spent by part time employed women. They spent 5.5, 5, and 6 hours per day doing chores in 1985, 1995 and 2005, respectively. A significantly lesser amount of time was spent on doing chores by full time employed women; they spent 2 hours in 1985, 7.5 hours in 1995, and 2.5 hours in 2005. Full time employed men spent one hour a day in 1985 and 1995 and 1.5 hours per day in 2005.
