The pie charts illustrate the proportions of male and female workers who worked different numbers of hours per week in the government and private sectors.
Overall, men tended to work longer hours than women in both sectors, with the highest proportion of male workers working over 46 hours per week. By contrast, women were most commonly concentrated in the 6-12-hour category. Notably, the lowest working-hour category for men differed between the two sectors, ranging from 13-30 hours in the government sector to just 1-2 hours in the private sector.
In the government sector, the proportion of men working over 46 hours per week was the highest, at 30%, compared with just 4% of women. By contrast, the figure for women in the 6-12-hour category was 35%, considerably higher than that for men, at 23%. Women accounted for 20% in the 31-45-hour category, compared with 15% of men. Meanwhile, 23% of women worked 13-30 hours per week, while the same proportion of men worked only 1-2 hours.
Turning to the private sector, around one-third of male workers worked over 46 hours per week, compared with just 4% of female workers. At the other end of the scale, only 5% of men worked 1-2 hours per week, whereas the largest proportion of women, at 34%, fell into the 6-12-hour category. Interestingly, men accounted for 20% in both the 6-12-hour and 31-45-hour categories, while the corresponding figure for women was 20% in the 13-30-hour and 31-45-hour categories.