The provided charts depict the average daily time, in minutes, that male and female citizens in the UK spent on household and leisure pursuits in 2008.
Overall, the UK people chose TV, radio, video as the entertaining activity to spend the most time on daily, while sport exercises were the activity that they spent the least time on. Moreover, cooking and washing was the household task that took the UK individuals the longest time to complete, whereas the contrast was true for the task of repairing.
To begin with, in the category of leisure indulgence, the amount of time that the UK men spent on watching and listening to TV, radio, video daily was around 137 minutes, whereas that of the UK women was considerably lower, at 118 minutes only. Moving on, 18 minutes was the estimated daily time spent on reading books by the UK male residents, while that of the UK female individuals was slightly higher by just a mere minute. For sport exercises, the British men spent an estimated 15 minutes on it daily; however, the British women spent a marginally lower amount of time on it, at 11 minutes.
Furthermore, in the category of housework, it took the UK male residents about 30 minutes daily to cook and wash. However, there was a stark contrast to that of the UK female residents, as they spent a noticably higher amount of time on cooking and washing, at nearly 80 minutes. Moving on, it was recorded that the British men went shopping in just above 20 minutes daily, while it took the British women nearly 40 minutes to go shopping. In terms of repairing, the UK female individuals spent just below 10 minutes daily rapairing, whereas there was a two-fold increase in the average time that the UK male residents spent on repairing. Finally, for clothing, washing and ironing, the UK men only spent around 10 minutes on it daily, while it took women a significanly higher amount of time to complete that task, at about 30 minutes daily.