The given charts provide information towards the average daily time, spent by the UK’s men and women on numerous household and leisure activities in 2008.
Overall, it is obviously that almost men spent their time doing leisure activities, particularly watching TV and playing sport games, whereas women tended to dedicate their time for household chores such as cooking, washing and going to shopping.
According to the table, men opted for more leisure activities as watching TV, video and listening to the radio than women, with 137 minutes per day as opposed to a mere 118 minutes. Men used 18 minutes per day for reading, slightly less than the 19 minutes spent by women. In addition, the data on the average time that men spent on sport games was about 15 minutes each day, while women spent solely 11 minutes for that kind of leisure activities.
The bar chart describes the discrepancy between 2 genders about their spending time on different household tasks. Men spent around 30 minutes on cooking and washing, whereas women did these work about approximately 75 minutes per day. With reference to shopping, both men and women spent under 40 minutes for this task, about 25 and 35 minutes respectively. In relation to repair work, men allocated nearly 20 minutes, which doubled that time spent by women. Eventually, men used 10 minutes for clothes washing and ironing, less than 20 minutes spent by women on the same.