The provided chart illustrates how much time men and women spent everyday on both household and leisure activities in the UK in the year 2008.
Overall, it is obvious that all men and women spent more time on leisure activities rather than household chores each day in 2008. Specifically, both genders spent a significant amount of time watching TV, radio and video. Moreover, females can be seen to spend most of their time doing housework compared to males.
Commencing with leisure activities, watching TV, radio and video was the leading activities that both genders chose to spend their time everyday, which was six times as much as that of reading books and doing sports. Besides, there was a little difference in reading books and doing sports between men and women in 2008.
In terms of household chores, notably, cooking and washing was the activity allocated much time by both genders, with the average time of women and men spent standing at 75 and 30 minutes a day, respectively. In 2008, women were witnessed to be the ones who spent a large amount of time washing clothes and ironing everyday compared to males. Meanwhile, the opposite was true for repairing, it seems that men are better at repairing things in their house than women; as a result, they spent twice their freetime repairing as much as that of women.