The given charts illustrate the average amount of time spent on leisure as well as housework activities in UK in 2008 in terms of gender
Overall, males were likely to allocate more time on their hobbies while female used their time for household tasks. Additionally, watching television, video and listening to the radio were the most popular leisure activities for both genders whereas cooking and washing were the most time-consuming household chores in this nation
Regarding recreational pursuits, with 137 and 118 minutes per day were spent by men and women respectively, watching television, video and listening to the radio were by far the most common among these activities. However, the figures for reading books were similar for both genders, nearly 20 minutes each, whilst the quantity of time used for playing sports by males was slightly higher than 11 minutes allocated by females
As for household chores, cooking and washing consumed the largest amount of females’ time, approximately 75 minutes a day, which was more than twice compared to the figure for males. In addition, ranked on the second place was shopping, with women averaging around 35 minutes and men roughly 25 minutes. This pattern continued with clothing washing and ironing, where women spent about 30 minutes/day, three times supposed to the amount men did. Nevertheless, males used as twice time for repairing as females, at approximately 20 minutes and 10 minutes in turn.