The depicted charts illustrate the daily allocation of time, based on minutes, by men and women in the UK to both household and leisure activities in 2008.
Overall, a significant disparity can be seen in the distribution of time spent on leisure versus household activities between genders, with men dedicating more time to free-time activities, while household chores were mostly done by women.
In terms of leisure activity, men had the highest rate of watching TV, videos, and listening to the radio, with an average of 137 minutes per day, considerably higher than the 118 that women devoted to the same activities. Furthermore, men allocated 18 minutes to reading and 15 minutes to sports, slightly lower than women’s corresponding 19 minutes and 11 minutes.
Looking at the other unmentioned diagram, the data reveals that cooking and washing were done majorly by women, with a number of more than 75 minutes per day; contrary to men, this rate was approximately 30. Repairing was the only sector in which men had superiority, with a rate of just under 20; however, women recorded the half. Moreover, shopping was one of the housework activities where the average minutes spent per day were approximately similar, with the number around 38 for females and 25 for males.