The presented bar chart compares unpaid work at home per week under 3 categories, namely married men, married women, and unmarried women. Overall, women have to do more housework than men when they have offspring.
In the absence of children, married females involve the highest hours on housework, at 30 hours per week, when unmarried ladies spend 5 hours less than it. Remarkably, married males contribute only 20 hours per week to household activities, remaindering housework inequality between genders.
With the presence of children, women’s work load is almost double. Married women with less than 2 children approximately spend 50 hours, and they spend 55 hours when they have more than 3 children. Similarly, single mothers with 1 to 2 offspring occupy 55 hours without charge and an additional 5 hours they spend if they have 3 or more offspring. Conversely, the number of children does not impact men’s working hours on housework since they approximately continue their same amount of working hours of 20.
All in all, there is a huge household work distribution inequality between men and women, specifically males who avoid child care activities.