The following chart illustrates the result of a questionnaire of children’s activities in a particular year. The first chart represents the preferences of cultural and leisure activities of boys, whereas the second graph showed the activities in which girls prioritized.
Overall, boys were actively engaged in computer games rather than activities that require physical contact, while girls were much more active in dancing and reading. However, girls devoted significant share of their time to reading, whereas it was the least preferred action in their male counterparts.
Examining the data for boys, playing computer games stood out as the category which occupied much of their time, at 34%, a double of that for football, at 17%.This was followed distantly by basketball, on which boys spend 26% on their time. Listening to music and skateboarding reflected each other more or less closely, the former at 10% and the latter at 11%. In contrast, time devoted to reading, registering 2%.
In contrast, girls displayed a markedly different pattern of preferences. Dancing dominated the graph that dedicated for girls, accounting for a substantial 27% of total time. Reading accounted for the 21% of the occupancy – nearly two times the proportion allocated to listening to music and gymnastics, 10% and 11%, respectively. However, netball and computer games mirrored each one, ranging from 15% to 16%, with a mere of 1% discrepancy.