Six groups of household tasks divided by gender in Great Britain are shown on the bar graph. These specific groups are cooking, banking, washing; cleaning, house tidying; gardening, pet care; care of own children and play; maintenance odd jobs; and clothes, washing ironing, sewing. The units of measurement are minutes per person on a daily basis.
Overall, the amount of time that females spend on doing household tasks was significantly higher than of males, around 232 compared to 140 minutes per day. However, there were two groups of tasks showing the different trend, which are gardening/pet care and maintenance odd jobs.
For cooking/baking/washing up, women spent a daily of 74 minutes, which was significantly higher than 30 minutes per day of men. Having the same patterns, the amount of time that females spent on caring their children were barely double of males, about 45 and 20 minutes per day There also was a difference of about 4. 5 times between women and men in cleaning/house tidying, 58 minutes compared to just 13 minutes per day. Each day, women gave 25 minutes to wash clothes, iron and sew, but men only spent 2 minutes on these tasks. In contrast, males showed their dominance in terms of gardening /pet care and maintenance odd jobs, spending about 49. 5 and 26 minutes on a daily basis. For females, they spent just 21 and 9. 5 minutes respectively for these activities each day.
Six groups of household
tasks
divided by gender in Great Britain
are shown
on the bar graph. These specific groups are cooking, banking, washing; cleaning,
house
tidying; gardening, pet
care
;
care
of
own
children and play; maintenance odd jobs; and clothes, washing ironing, sewing. The units of measurement are minutes per person on a daily basis.
Overall
, the amount of time that females spend on doing household
tasks
was
significantly
higher than of males, around 232 compared to 140 minutes per day.
However
, there were two groups of
tasks
showing the
different
trend, which are gardening/pet
care
and maintenance odd jobs.
For cooking/baking/washing up, women
spent
a daily of 74 minutes, which was
significantly
higher than 30 minutes per day of
men
. Having the same patterns, the amount of time that females
spent
on caring their children were
barely
double of males, about 45 and 20 minutes per day There
also
was a difference of about 4. 5 times between women and
men
in cleaning/
house
tidying, 58 minutes compared to
just
13 minutes per day. Each day, women gave 25 minutes to wash clothes, iron and sew,
but
men
only
spent
2 minutes on these
tasks
.
In contrast
, males
showed
their dominance in terms of gardening /pet
care
and maintenance odd jobs, spending about 49. 5 and 26 minutes on a daily basis. For females, they
spent
just
21 and 9. 5 minutes
respectively
for these activities each day.