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.) Describe the information presented below, comparing results for men and women in the categories shown. Suggest reasons for what you see.
#hours #work #week #people #categories #activities #childcare #home #housework #information #results #men #women
The bar chart provides information on the average number of
hours
married men
and women
use to do jobs that do not offer any form of salary in seven days.
Overall
, married females do the most work
in all three categories while
married males with or without any children
do the same hours
of work
.
In terms of spouses with no children
, the women
perform 30 hours
of work
in the week; however
, men
's average time spent doing work
without pay is just over half what the hours
women
spend (18). Women
who are married with one to two children
waste approximately 51 hours
doing activities like helping them with homework or babysitting which is almost three times higher than men
in this
same category.
Finally
, married women
with three or more children
take the lead among their other counterparts by spending 60 hours
per week doing housework such
as gardening and assisting with their children
's schoolwork whereas
the men
with three-plus children
still stay below 20 hours
per week.Submitted by obdemawuena on
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, men, women, work, children with synonyms.
▼
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "information" in your introduction.
▼
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
▼