The tables compare the amount of time that males and females in four regions spend on working in 2002.
Overall, the average number of hours for full-time workers is much higher than that of part-time workers. Men who had a nine to five job generally worked longer hours than women, while the figure for both sexes in part-time jobs relatively balanced among different regions.
Regarding the number of hours devoting to full-time job, both genders in Greece had the highest figure, at 39.9 hours and 42.5 hours for women and men, respectively. The statistic of European average ranked second, with 39.2 hours for female and 40.4 hours for male. The Netherlands showed the same pattern for both sexes, at 38 hours, while in the UK, women spent average 37 hours at work, and men devoted 0.5 hours higher than women to their career.
In terms of the average working time of temporary workers, European average’s statistic ranked first, with 34 hours for women and 32 hours for men. Greece followed by European, showing the figure at 29.3 hours and 30.0 hours for female and male, respectively. By contrast, women in the Netherlands spent more time on part-time jobs than men, 29.2 hours compared with 28.3 hours. The UK had the smallest average number of hours for part-time among the four regions, standing at 28 hours for women and 29 hours for men.