The supplied bar chart compares the number of leisure hours enjoyed by males and females with different employment statuses in a typical week in 1998 and 1999.
Overall, it is clear that unemployed and retired people enjoyed the most leisure time regardless of gender, whereas the largest difference between males and females were observed in the housewives and part-time employed categories.
Focusing on unemployed and retired, these figures recorded similar position at about 85 hours of leisure time in a typical week regardless of men, while women enjoyed with approximately 77 hours. Lastly employed full-time, males stood at around 48 hours of free time compared with roughly 38 hours for females.
Looking at the other two categories, the housewives accounted for over 50, while man were 0. By contrast, women employed part-time enjoyed approximately 40, whereas there were no figures for men.
