The bar charts below illustrate the proportion of gender in a particular country who did certain kinds of tasks at home and the amount of time they spent doing these tasks.
Overall, it is clear that Cooking and Cleaning were the two tasks that were performed by the largest proportion of both males and females and the two tasks that men and women spent the most time performing.
Looking at the graph more closely, one can see that just over 80% of women spent time cooking, compared to around 60% of men. A similar trend was seen in the figure for cleaning. While over 60% of females spent time cleaning, the percentage of men stood at around 40%. By contrast, a slightly larger rate of men were involved in pet care, at just over 20%, while the figure for house repairs almost doubled that of women, at approximately 18%.
In terms of time spent doing these tasks, women spent over 80 minutes a day cooking, and just under 70 minutes cleaning. The time men spent on the same tasks was 60 minutes and over 40 minutes respectively. In contrast, men spent more time in house repairs, at approximately 20 minutes a day, which was almost double that of women, while both men and women spent an equal amount of time on pet care.