The given tables illustrate information about the time spent for working of males and females in various areas in the year 2002.
Overall it can be clearly seen from the graph that the average number of hours for full-time employees of men was higher than that of women in 2002. Notably, this pattern was not repeated in terms of the part-time workers of men compared to women in 2002, with women working more than men in that mentioned time.
Looking at Greece, women’s working time was lower than that of men, with 39.9 to 42.5 hours in 2002. This gap was smaller when it came to the part-time jobs, with 29.3 to 30.0 in same year. Moving to the Netherlands, it was noticeable that women and men shared the same amount of time in full-time job at 38 hours in 2002; however, this pattern was not the same in regard of part-time work, with women working 29.2 hours to men working 28.3 hours.
In terms of the UK, it was different from the mentioned figures above, with males working more time than females, which were specifically 37.5 hours to 37.0 hours in full-time work and 29.0 to 28.0 hours in part-time jobs in 2002. Lastly, there were marked differences in the European average time for these work of both men and women. In the full-time occupation, men worked more than women, which was 40.4 to 39.2 hours in 2002; however, this was contrast when it came to part-time jobs as women working more than men, with 34 to 32 hours in the same year.
