The bar chart illustrates the amount of hours spent on housework by women categorized by different job types in comparison to men who work full time in the United Kingdom over a twenty year period from 1985 to 2005.
Overall, unemployed women did chores the most among other female groups, followed by females working part-time and full-time, while men who had a full-time occupation did housework for the least amount of hours a day.
It can be seen from the graph that stay at home females spent seven hours a day on housework in 1985 and in 2005, however, it dipped by half an hour in 1995. Moreover, women working part-time did chores for almost five hours a day on average throughout the years, followed by those who worked full-time at just two hours in 1985, dipping to one hour and a half in 1995, and increasing to approximately three hours by 2005.
In contrast, men who worked full-time tended to do housework the least in comparison to women with or without a job. For the first ten years of the studied period, men did housework one hour a day, however, they increased the amount of hours spent on chores by half an hour in 2005.