Band 6+: The chart below shows the average hours worked per day by married men and women in paid employment. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the average working hours daily by married men and women in employment.

Overall, while the hours spend for working paid work and unpaid work are far more significant in the husbands, the wives achieve the balance between doing paid work and unpaid work.

Looking in the bar chart in more detail, while husbands in the age 24-44 spend 7 hours doing paid work in companies and only 2 and a half hours working at home, wives at the same age do 5 and a half hours for paid work and 5 hours per day for unpaid work at home. In total, married women spend 2 more hours than men working at both company and home each day.

In the age 45-64, it is clear that husbands spend the same daily working hours as the men in group 24-44 at the company. Wives in the same age spend 6 and a half hours each day doing paid work and their total working time are 3 more hours than husbands, at 11 and a half hours per day.