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 graph demonstrates the average amount of time housework women did in comparison to full-time working men from 1985 to 2005 in the UK.

Overall, throughout the 20-year period, men who were employed full-time had the least hours spent on housework. On the other hand, unemployed women did the most housework hours.

To begin with, in 1985, unemployed women spent precisely 7 hours doing housework. However, this number a bit declined in 1995, before increased back to 7 hours in 2005. Furthermore, part-time working women spent roughly 5 and a half hours on housework in 1985, but fell to only 5 hours in 1995, then rose to 6 hours in average in 2005. For women with full-time employment, it started at 2 hours spent for doing housework, then climbed to just almost 3 hours in 2005. In contrast, full-time working men remained stable in the first two period, but saw a gentle increase in 2005 with around 1,5 hours time spent.