The chart below compares the percentage of time Australian mothers and fathers spent helping their children with four activities in 2013

The provided bar chart illustrates how much

time

mothers

and

fathers

in Australia spent assisting their children with four different activities namely dressing, doing

homework

, playing games, and preparing for bed in 2013.

Overall

, it can be apparently seen that the proportion of

time

that Australian

mothers

took to give their children a hand with these activities is more than

fathers

.

Moreover

,

mothers

in Australia tended to help their children with dressing

while

fathers

are likely to assist them with doing

homework

. Generally, the figure for

time

spent helping them play games by both

mothers

and

fathers

is the highest of all the categories. Regarding

mothers

, helping their offspring change clothes reached nearly 75%, followed by

homework

and bed-making, at 60% and around 42%, respectively. The lowest

time

spent by female parents was on entertainment, at 25%. Concerning

fathers

,

time

spent doing

homework

accounted for 10%, around five times higher than that of choosing clothes. Meanwhile, playing games and preparing for bed shared the same figure, at approximately 4% each. Generally, both parents spent 70% of their

time

entertaining their offspring,

whereas

figures for dressing and bedtime activities were 50% each.

In contrast

, doing assignments in the final place, at just under 40%.