The chart illustrates the leisure hours available for men and women across various employment statuses in a week between 1998 and 1999.
Overall, the men tend to enjoy more leisure hours than women in certain occupation status like full time employment, retired and even when underemployed and on the other hand has absolutely no leisure hours when they are half employed and are househusbands.
Fully employed males enjoy around 50 hours of leisure time whereas the females of same status only enjoy closely 40 hours which is the least of all leisure hours. Unemployed and retired males enjoy the highest leisure hours which is close to 90 hours per week whereas the females of these occupations enjoy a little less around 75 hours.
Half time employed women and housewives have 40 and 55 hours respectively as a leisure time whereas the males in this occupation enjoy a total of 0 hours, that is there are either no men in this occupation or the men have 0 free hours.
