The charts above depicts the changes that ownership of electrical appliances, and amount of time doing housework had went through from 1920 to 2019 percentagewise.
Overall, all three appliances namely washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner experienced upward trend during the century, and it caused a decrease in amount of time spent for household work.
In the first chart, the use of refrigerator and vacuum cleaner, reached it’s maximum of 100% in 1980 and 2000 respectively, and stayed unchanged during the rest of the period. The figure for washing machines was at 40% in 1920 by the year of 1960 this number rose to 70 percent, and followed by a decline until 1980. From 1980 to 2019 the percentage for washing machines saw steady increase and reached it’s peak of roughly 75% in 2019.
The popularity of household appliances contributed to the reduction in the amount of time spent for housework, thus it only decreased during the century, except for the period from 1980 to 2000 where the time spent stayed stagnant. In 1920 the number of hours was 50 hours per week by the end of 2019 this figure fell to 10 hours.
The charts above depicts the
changes
that ownership of electrical appliances, and amount of
time
doing housework had
went
through from 1920 to 2019
percentagewise
.
Overall
, all three appliances
namely
washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner experienced upward trend during the century, and it caused a decrease in amount of
time
spent for household work.
In the
first
chart, the
use
of refrigerator and vacuum cleaner, reached it’s maximum of 100% in 1980 and 2000
respectively
, and stayed unchanged during the rest of the period. The figure for washing machines was at 40% in 1920 by the year of 1960 this number rose to 70 percent, and followed by a decline until 1980. From 1980 to 2019 the percentage for washing machines
saw
steady increase and reached it’s peak of roughly 75% in 2019.
The popularity of household appliances contributed to the reduction in the amount of
time
spent for housework,
thus
it
only
decreased during the century,
except for
the period from 1980 to 2000 where the
time
spent stayed stagnant. In 1920 the number of hours was 50 hours per week by the
end
of 2019 this figure fell to 10 hours.