Band 6+: The chart below shows the percentage of males and females working for different hours per week in Australia in 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph illustrates Australian male and female proportion of working hours for different time schedules per week in 2007.

Overall, male’s were more likely to work longer hours and were generally represented there, while females dominated more short hours.

In the shorter working hours, females had got the lead and were dominating the graph starting to lead with below 20 hours with a 5% statistic, leading on top just with a 2% difference with males. Next up having a rapid growth up to nearly 20% in the 24-26 hour range, while male had a petite growth up to just 7-8%. And lastly, in the 30-32 hour range female percentage had slightly lowered to just 17%, however still conquering the chart toward male that had been growing and getting closer with female having just below 15%.

For longer hours, males had noticeably higher percentages, rather than females. Males were showing a sharp high percentage in the 34-36 hour range with above than 25%, and females slightly lower at 23%. The 40-42 hour range showed a similar statistic, with 23% males and 18% females. A larger gap was showing up at a 44-50 hour gap, where males made up approximately 17% and females were dropped behind by just making 12%. For the last extreme gap, both genders were showing a low percentage, however males still exceeded females slightly.