The bar chart illustrates how many hours were spent on household chores by women with no, part-time, and full-time employment and men working full-time.
Overall, not working females spent the highest amount of time on completing housework, while full-time employed male’s contribution to household activities accounted for the smallest share. Notably, there is a significant difference between women who were unemployed or partly employed and both men and women with full-time employment.
Females with no employment contributed the most to the completion of housework, taking the leading position with 7 hours in 1985. Despite remaining the dominant figure, it had declined to 6,5 hours by 1995; however, with a slight fluctuation, it had risen to 7 hours again by 2005. Women who did part-time job spent 5,5 hours on household chores in 1985. Although this category experienced a negligible decrease to 5 hours in 1995, it had increased to 6 hours by 2005.
Both genders working full-time spent a little amount of time on doing household activities. Women’s contribution to the completion of housework was erratic, starting at 2 hours and dropping marginally to 1,5 hours in 1995, with addition of 1 hour to the overall time expenditure in 2005. Men had spent 1 hour on doing household chores in the initial years, but it had seed a marginal increase to 1,5 hours by 2005.