The line graphs below illustrate the percentage of
households
with electrical appliances and the Use synonyms
hours
people spent doing housework between 1920 and 2019.
Use synonyms
Overall
, over the Linking Words
years
, an increasing number of Use synonyms
households
had electrical appliances, Use synonyms
while
the time spent doing housework dropped.
Refrigerators experienced a steady rise, with around 1% of Linking Words
households
having one in 1920, about 55% in 1940, 90% in 1960 and Use synonyms
finally
from 1980 until 2019 all Linking Words
households
had a refrigerator. The percentage of Use synonyms
households
with vacuum cleaners experienced a sharp increase from 1920 to 1980, each 20 Use synonyms
years
there was an increase of 20% of Use synonyms
households
with a vacuum cleaner, and from 2000, all families had one. The number of Use synonyms
households
with washing machines rose significantly in the first 40 Use synonyms
years
, from 40% to 70%, Use synonyms
then
experienced a small decline before it continued growing to 75% in 2019.
The time that people spent doing housework dropped dramatically between 1920 and 1980, from 50 Linking Words
hours
a week to around 15 Use synonyms
hours
, which remained stable in the next 20 Use synonyms
years
, but Use synonyms
then
it started to fall modestly to just over 10 Linking Words
hours
in 2019.Use synonyms
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