The table providescharts provide information about the comparison of time spent betweenby males and females on household and leisure activities in the UK and the pie chart illustrates the variation in the number of minutes men and women spend on four different household chores in 2008.
Overall, both genders spent most of their time on leisure activities related to digital entertainment. However, women tended to invest more time onin all domestic tasks except repairing tasks.repairs.
As can be observed in the table, men spent the highest amount of time on digital entertainment, averaging 137 minutes per day, which is the greatest figure in the entire table. In contrast, the lowest amount of time iswas spent on sports by women, with only 11 minutes daily-daily – ten times less than the 118 minutes women spent on digital devices. Although no significant difference can be found in the duration men and women readspent reading daily, it was the only category thatin which the latter was higher than the former, respectively 18 and 19 minutes.at 19 and 18 minutes respectively.
In terms of a bar chart, as household activities, ithousehold activities, the bar chart reveals that women spent considerably more time than men inon most domestic chores, except for repairs. Cooking and washing took up the largest portion of women’s time, at approximately 75 minutes per day, which was over double the time men spent on the same task.tasks. Women also allocated more time to shopping and to clothes washing and ironing, with figures around 35 and 30 minutes respectively, compared to just under 25 and 10 minutes for men. On the other hand, men were more involved in repair work, spending about 18 minutes daily, while women only spent around 10 minutes inon this activity.
