Band 6+: The bar chart below shows the average duration of housework women did (unemployed, part-time employed and full-time) when compared to men who had full-time work in the UK between 1985 and 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph illustrates the comparison of the amount of time spent on housework between men who were working full-time and three other categories of women in the UK, over a 30-year period, which started in 1985.

Overall, Unemployed women were the ones leading in doing housework, with no change of the hours spent over the examined period. All other groups faced some rise in the hours of contributing for housework, with an average increase of half an hour per each bracket.

Although the hours which unemployed women devoted to housework remained unchanged, from1985 to 1995 they went down by nearly half an hour – from 7 to 6.5 hours, respectively. Then, in 10-years time they had soared up again until 2005, where their amount was the same as the initial one.

The other three categories experienced an upward trend in the average hours spent on housework, however, in 1995 Women with Part-time employment and Full-time employment did 0.5 hours less housework, compared to their prior parameters. Only Men with Full-time employment increased their housework hours slowly but surely, as there was no change of their performance from 1985 to 1995 with an hour spent on the mentioned occasion, which went up to 1.5 hours over the next 10 years.