The given bar chart illustrates the amount of free time per week both for men and women in five categories of employment status from 1998 to 1999. Overall, It is clear that men enjoyed more hours of leisure time per week than women in three out of five categories. However, only figures for women are shown in two categories, namely employed part-time and housewives.
Among the full-time employed people, obviously men had slightly more leisure time than women, with approximately 45 hours of free time per week, compared to around 38 hours for women. Obviously, unemployed and retired people had the longest period of leisure activity of both genders. Moreover, the figures for retired males and females were exactly the same as those for the unemployed, at around 85 and 78 hours of free time per week respectively.
Housewives enjoyed 50 hours of spare time, a little more than part-time and full-time working women who had just over 40 and 38 leisure hours each week, respectively but less than the unemployed and retired women. No data was given for employed part time and housewives for men of these categories.