The provided charts delineate the average time British men and women allocated to leisure and household activities in 2008.
Overall, men generally tended to spend more time on leisure activities daily than their female counterparts, with the exception of reading. Meanwhile, time spent on household chores was notably higher among women than men, except for repair tasks.
Regarding the table, entertainment via media such as television, video and radio was the dominant activity for both genders, with men spending 19 minutes more than women (137 minutes and 118 minutes respectively). Similarly, the figure for the average time dedicated to sports for men was 15 minutes daily, 4 minutes higher than that of the surveyed women. By contrast, daily reading time among women was higher than men’s statistics, albeit by a small margin of 1 minute.
Turning to the remaining chart, the most amount of time was often spent on cooking and washing tasks for women at nearly 80 minutes per day, followed by shopping and laundry tasks with both at around half an hour daily. By contrast, men dedicated less time on those aforementioned tasks, reporting over 20 minutes for cooking, washing, shopping chores and merely 10% for laundry. However, men did more daily repair, which occupied nearly 20 minutes of their day as compared to their female counterparts’ figure of around 10 minutes.