The table chart provided a detailed comparison about the average working hours in terms of part-time and full-time job between women and men across three different countries in 2002, contrasting the average figure of the entire Europe.
Overall, men consistently worked longer hours than women in full-time roles, however in the average working hours of part-time jobs, men showed shorter working hours than women. Greece was said to be the leading country in terms of time spent at work.
Turning to full-time work, the European average revealed that men spent more time in this type of work than women, with 40.4 and 39.2, correspondingly. Especially, in Greece, the standard level of working hours of both genders surpassed this figure in Europe, with 39.9 for women and 42.5 for men. In terms of the Netherlands, this was the only nation where the mean figure for working time between two genders, witnessed an equal number of hours (38). When compared to the previous countries, the UK showed the lowest average working hours with only 37 for women and 37.5 for men.
Conversely, the average part-time working hours in Europe were lower for both genders compared to full-time employment, at 34 hours for women and 32 for men. Additionally, women in Greece accounted for the highest average time of work at 29.3 hours, while in the UK this figure was the lowest with only 28 weekly hours. However, it is similar that men in these countries spent more time for part-time jobs than their counterparts with 30 and 29 hours, respectively. Regarding the Netherlands, when compared with two aforementioned nations, only women in this country worked longer than men with 29.2 and 28.3 hours, correspondingly.