Band 6+: The tables give information about the average hours worked by part-time and full-time men and women in three countries in European in 2002 and compare them with the European countries. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given two tables indicate the average amount of time which both full-time and part-time employees worked in three distinctive European nations in the year of 2002.

Overall, the tables point out that men usually spent more hours working than women regardless of their types of jobs. The Greek employees appeared to be the most work-oriented ones, while UKcitizens enjoyed shorter working time.

In particular, the longest working time was observed in Greece where female workers worked 39.9 hours on an average, around 2.6 hours less than their male counterparts. This amount was relatively higher than the European average figure of 39.2 hours for females and 40.4 hours for males. Dutch women and men allocated an equal amount of time at 38 hours, which was 1 hour and 1.5 hours longer than their UK counterparts.

With regard to part-time jobs, citizens in the three listed nations devoted smaller amounts of time to their career compared to the European average. The Greek worked the hardest, with 29.3 hoursspent by women and 30 hours by men, and it was slightly longer than the figures for UK citizens. It is interesting that only females in the Netherlands were more committed to their part-time jobs with 29.2 hours than their male counterparts.