Band 7+: Chart and table provide allocation of men and women for the household activities, apart from paid work, in 2008 in the UK. Summarize the information by describing the main features of the charts and making comparison where appropriate.

The chart illustrates how many minutes per day men and women in the UK allocate for household and leisure activities.

Overall, men tend to spend more time on entertainment activities than women, while women devote more time to household chores compared to men.

Men spend more time than women watching TV, videos, and listening to the radio, with 137 minutes daily compared to nearly 2 hours for women. A similar pattern can be seen in the figure for sport, where men are 4 minutes higher than women. The time that two genders spend on books is approximately equal and nearly 20 minutes, 18 minutes for men and 19 minutes for women.

Regarding household activities, women spend half of an hour daily washing and ironing clothes, triple the time spent by men. They also waste 35 minutes to go shopping everyday, 10 minutes more than their male counterparts. The dramatic difference can be seen in the figure for cooking and washing, women devote 70 minutes to these tasks, while men spend significantly less time, at only 30 minutes. In contrast, most of the repair work in the house is done by men, who spend nearly 20 minutes on it, twice as much as women.