The chart below shows the percentage of men and women who did various free time activities in England.

The chart illustrates how

men

and

women

spend their free

time

on various activities in England.

Overall

, more

women

than

men

spend

time

with family and when shopping in their free

time

,

while

the opposite was true for other activities.

Additionally

, there was a dramatic difference between the proportions of

men

and

women

who went shopping and used the Internet. In

further

detail, watching TV was the most popular activity among

both

genders, which

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accounted for more than three-quarters. Spending

time

with family, despite having an opposite pattern,

also

had the majority of

men

and

women

do

this

in their free

time

, recorded at around 76% for

both

sexes. The solitary activities

such

as doing sport/ exercise and reading,

however

, had more

men

than

women

involved, at about 72% for

women

and nearly 75% for

men

. Moving on to other categories where the disparities were much more considerable, the percentage of

women

who went shopping was nearly three times higher than that of

men

, making it the biggest gap between

both

genders.

Conversely

, the figure for

men

using the Internet outnumbered that for

women

, at around 73% and 40% respectively. Playing computer games,

however

, was least

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by

both

men

and

women

, at under one-fifth.