The idea of having a single career is becoming an old fashioned one. The new fashion will be to have several careers or ways of earning money and further education will be something that continues throughout life. To what extent do you agree?

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The line graphs below illustrate the percentage change of household electrical appliances and the number of hours spent on housework in households from 1920 to 2019. Overall, electrical devices that are shown in the graph include washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners, and the percentage of households which has these devices raise dramatically.
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, the amount of time that needs to spend on
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reduce significantly.
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cleaner has the most remarkable change. In 1920, around 2% of households contains
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, in 1980, it was brought by every household and the trend remain constant to 2019. The Refrigerator
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has a noticeable increasing trend. From 2000, every house had had a refrigerator, whereas only 30% by
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device in 1920.
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tend
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of using washing
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fluctuated along the way from 40% in 1920 to around 75% in 2019.
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of buying automated products, the number of hours needed to spend on household tasks is decreasing. From 1920, the time that had been required for the task reduced considerably to 1969 (from 50% to 20%).
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, the time spent still reduce but at a slower rate from 20% in 1960 to around 12% in 2019.
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