The bar chart illustrates the amount of time spent by men and women on various activities around their home per week.
Overall, with the exception of reading, women spend most time on household chores (cooking, cleaning the house, washing up), whereas men engage more in leisure activities (watching TV and surfing the internet). While women spend the highest amount of time on cooking, men spend the longest time on watching TV. However, even though men spend more time than women on gardening, this activity is the least preferred for both genders. Both genders spend relatively the same amount of time on reading.
Regarding household chores, women allocate 15 hours on cooking, while men take a shorter time, 9 hours. Washing up follows a similar pattern, with women spending more time than men (7 hours and 5 hours, respectively) on this activity. However, there is a notable gap between women and men on cleaning the house, in which women (5 hours) spend more than double men’s time (2 hours). Meanwhile, both genders dedicate equal numbers of hours in reading, roughly 5 hours each per week.
Turning to leisure activities, men spend slightly more time on watching TV compared to women (14 hours and 12 hours, respectively). However, surfing the internet shows the greatest disparity between two genders, with 12 hours spent by men and 4 hours spent by women. Likewise, men allocate twice as much time as women in gardening (2 hours compared to an hour).