The table below provides data about how much time males and females spent for leisure activities (TV, video, radio, reading and sport) and the graph below compares average time that people of both sexes allocated for household chores excluding the paid work they did in 2008 in the UK. Overall, the figures of men for all counted leisure activities were higher than their female counterparts’ with an exception of reading. While the time that males allocated for repair work was higher, females showed even higher allocation especially for cooking and washing and clothes washing and ironing.
Males allocated more time for TV, video, radio and Sport. They spent 137 minutes each day for the former set of activities, which was higher by 19-minute-unit than the proportion of women’s and 15 minutes per day for the latter activity, which was also higher by 1 minute than the figure of their female counterparts. Focusing on reading time, the discrepancy was less pronounced, with men dedicating 18 minutes and women spending 19 minutes a day.
Despite allocating less time for leisure time activities, women spent consistently higher time for household activities with an exception of repairing. There was a significant difference between allocation of two genders, particularly in cooking and washing. While men was busy with cooking and washing work for averagely 30 minutes a day, women allocated about 75 minutes each day. In terms of shopping and clothes washing and ironing, men’s allocations were about 25 minutes and 10 minutes each day in average and women spent averagely 35 minutes and 30 minutes, respectively. Focusing on repair work, Males allocated nearly 20 minutes, a figure which was higher by about 10-minute-unit than the figure of females.