The chart reveals information on the division of household tasks by males and females in Great Britain. Units are measured in minutes per person per day.
From an overall perspective, the number of minutes per day that each female spent cooking, baking, and washing up reached the highest position while the minutes per day per male spent gardening and pet care occupied the largest figure. The minutes per day was made up significantly by females doing houseworks whereas males spent more time doing other tasks.
In the minutes per day of each female doing household tasks, the number of minutes per day that each woman spent cooking, baking, and washing up held the largest point, which stood at 74. Meanwhile, the time spent cleaning the house and tidying was 58 minutes while the minutes per day taking care of her own children and playing stayed at just 21. Each female spent 25 minutes on clothes washing, ironing, and sewing. However, the minutes per day per female spent gardening, petcare and maintaining odd jobs was lower than those of males, with 21 and 9.5 minutes per day, respectively.
Turning to the minutes per day per male, each male spent 49.5 minutes per day gardening and pet care while dedicating 2 minutes on clothes, washing, ironing, sewing. The number of minutes per day spent cooking, baking and washing up were larger than those spent caring for his own children and playing by a 10% difference gap, with 30 and 20 minutes per day per male, respectively. Notably, the minutes per day of each male cleaning the house and tidying recorded were lower than females while the time for maintaining odd jobs of each male and female followed the opposite trend. This means that males spent 13 minutes per day cleaning the house and tidying and 26 minutes maintaining odd jobs.