The bar chart below shows the average duration of housework women did (unemployed, part-time employed and full-time) when compared to men who had full-time work in the UK between 1985 and 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart below shows the average duration of housework women did

(unemployed, part-time employed and full-time) when compared to men who had full-time work in the UK between 1985 and 2005.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The presented bar chart illustrates information about the average duration of
housework
unemployment, part-
time
and full-
time
employment
women
did when compared to
men
with full-
time
in the UK from 1985 to 2005. It is measured in
hours
.
Overall
, it can be seen that
women
spent more
time
on household work than
men
.
Firstly
, evidently unemployed
women
spend more
time
on
housework
compared to everyone else, in 1985 they spent 7
hours
on household work.
Women
with part-
time
employment
spent five and a half
hours
on
housework
.
Women
with full-
time
employment
spent 2
hours
,
whereas
men
spent only 1 hour. Over the next ten years, the number of
hours
spent on
housework
was reduced by half an hour for all except for
men
, their
time
remains unchanged,
however
during the next 10 years in 2005, unemployed
women
’s
housework
returned to the same
time
, growing to 30 minutes. Full-
time
and part-
time
employment
women
's
housework
time
increased by an hour, reaching an all-
time
peak, and full-
time
employment
men
's
time
rose by 30 minutes,
also
reaching the apex.
Finally
, for 20 years, the
time
spent at house-working for everyone has increased, except for unemployed
women
, remaining stable
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