The bar chart illustrates the average time spent by men and women on housework and different levels of employment over the period of two decades. Units are measured in hours.
Overall, women with no job has invested the most time on household activities compared to the men and women who had part-time to full-time jobs, whereas men with full-time work spent the least hours throughout the period. Furthermore, 2005 had the most hours spent on housework than past 20 years.
In 1985, women with no employment spent 7 hours per day and slightly decreased to 6.5 hours. Although it rose again to the same position as it was, recording the highest among other categories in 2005. In contrast, women with a part-time job spent a little less time, indicating a decrease from approximately 5.5 hours to 5 hours, from 1985 to 1995, then increased to 6 hours ranking the second most housework done by part-time employed women in the year 2005.
Men and women with full-time jobs spend on house chores 2 hours and 1 hour respectively. However, the number of hours invested on housework by full-time employed women have declined to 1.5 hours and with men, it remained stable. In 2005, both categories increased adding 1 hour and 0.5 hour more, recording the least spent hours on household activities among all categories.