The column graph outlines the number of leisure hours enjoyed by males and females in a typical week in 1998-1999, according to the gender and employment status.
In short, men enjoyed more free time for leisure compared to their female counterparts.
Now turning back to the details, men with full-time jobs had around fifty hours of leisure, whereas women had just thirty-seven hours. No figures for male paet-time workers are given, but part-time employed females had fourty hours of free time each week which is only slighty more than the women with full-time work.
Unemployed and retired males and females enjoyed more leisure time than their employed counterparts. However, in both categories, men had more leisure time to enjoy than females. Such men had eighty hours of free time per week compared to ten hours fewer leisure hours by females.
Lastly, housewives enjoyed approximately fifty-four hours of leisure in a week during the given period and no data for househusbands was given.
