The given bar chart compared how household chores were divided between males and females in Great Britain
Generally, it is obvious that females in Great Britain spent more time on domestic chores than males. Specifically, women spent more time doing almost all types of household chores including cooking, baking, washing up, cleaning, house tidying, childcare and clothes, washing, ironing, sewing than men, except for gardening, pet care and maintenance odd jobs to which was devoted more time by males.
Looking first at the amount of time of female – dominated tasks, 72 minutes per day was recorded in cooking, baking, washing up by females, 44 minutes more than that by males, which was the category that had the largest gap in the amount of time spent on domestic chores by men and women. Likewise, the same gap was also recorded in the spending on cleaning, house tidying by males and females, with 19 minutes and 58 minutes per day, respectively. Additionally, women devoted 45 minutes per day to caring for their own children and playing with them, which doubled the amount of time spent by men, just 20 minutes per day. Men spent just 2 minutes per day on clothes, washing, ironing, sewing while it took women 25 minutes per day.
Turning to the remaining types of housework, men devoted the largest amount of time to gardening, pet care with 49,5 minutes per day, while it took women just 21 minutes per day. Likewise, 26 minutes per day was observed in maintenance odd jobs by men, 16,5 minutes more than by women.