The diagram below shows the average hours of unpaid work per week done by people in different categories.
(Unpaid work refers to such activities as childcare in the home, housework and gardening.)
The bar chart illustrates how many hours married women and men work household choices a week followed by each family structures.
Broadly, it can be seen that the number of hours which women do without paying is higher a lot compared to men in the marriage.
Looking at the graph in more detail, it is clear that there is a little differential hour between females and males (30 hours and around 19 hours per week) when they do not have children. However, when spouses have children in 1-2 age groups, the hours of working household by women significantly increased to over 50 hours a week due to childcare responsibilities while unpaid work hours of men slightly decreased by about an hour/ week. The women have a number of household working hours double times in relation to men with over 3 aged children ( about 55 hours and 15 hours a week respectively).
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