The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.
The line graphs illustrate the trend of households having a washing machine, refrigerator or vacuum cleaner and how many hours have been spent on chores per week from 1920 to 2019.
Overall
, there was an upward in possessing each electrical machine has increased. In contrast
, the time spent doing housework showed a dramatic downward.
Starting with the refrigerator, the appliance with the highest change and stayed at the lowest rank in 1920, there was a rapid rise between 1920 and 1960 from nearly 0 to exactly 90 per cent, respectively. Twenty years after that, the percentage has risen to 100 and constant at this
number until 2019. Meanwhile, in 2000, refrigerators shared the same proportion as washing appliances, that is
, 100
. Even though the washing machine begins the highest at first,
the growth rose slightly, making it the lowest rank in 2019.
It is noticeable that there was a significant drop in time spent on housework such
as washing clothes, preparing meals or cleaning during the past period. People used to spend 50 hours per week in 1920, but the number decreased gradually to 20 forty years after that, which was more than twice. After 1960, the amount of time declined to just over 10 hours per week at the end
of this
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