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 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 the among of
time
spent on work with no salaries every week by females and males, by surveying how many
children
they have. Looking from an
overall
perspective, it is readily apparent that females spend more
time
on family when they have more
children
whereas
males keep almost the same level in every group. The statistic shows that female in the marriage often spent
time
on housekeeping,
such
as cooking or doing laundry even without any offspring they still cost 30
hours
per week.
By contrast
, males in
this
group spend the most
time
on housekeeping, which is about 18
hours
.
On the other hand
, families with over 3
children
spend about double that without giving birth, which spent about 60 and 16
hours
for women and men respectively.
In addition
,in a family with one to two
children
mother's spending
time
comes to 10 less than 3
children
Mother and father still lack
time
for housekeeping, around 18
hours
per week.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • distribution
  • demographics
  • household responsibilities
  • societal expectations
  • norms
  • childcare
  • housework
  • gardening
  • contributions
  • family structure
  • cultural implications
  • social implications
  • work-life balance
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