The bar graph represents the leisure time spent based on gender and employment category in a typical week from the year 1998 to 1999.
The unemployed males enjoyed most of their time resting whereas nearly less than 50 hours of the employed full time working males are using the resting period. On one hand, the non-working males spends nearly 90% of their time and other hand, there is a slight difference in the retired of about 1 hour. In the given column graph, no data has been provided regarding the part time working and house staying males.
Among the employed females, those who work part time uses more time in leisure than the full-time workers while the housewives spend half of their spare time. Moreover, the retired and the unemployed women spends more than three quarters of their time in leisure activities. Overall, the comparative analysis between men and women depicts that woman takes less leisure period than men among various professional status catering to their needs in the society.