The first chart below shows the percentages of women and men in a country involved in some kinds of home tasks (cooking, cleaning, pet caring and repairing the house. The second chart shows the amount of time each gender spent on each task per day. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The first chart below shows the percentages of women and men in a country involved in some kinds of home tasks (cooking, cleaning, pet caring and repairing the house. The second chart shows the amount of time each gender spent on each task per day.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar charts illustrate how many percentages of
housework
and the average spending
time
on
housework
of each gender in three groups, namely, cooking, cleaning, pet care, and hose repairs. Units were measured in the form of percentages and minutes.
Overall
, what stands out the most from the graphs is the largest proportion of both genders spend their
time
and do cooking,
while
the lowest percentage and
time
spent on
house
repairs. The most significant difference in the percentage of
housework
between cooking and
house
repair was found in
females
. In terms of
females
, cooking ranked first in the amount of
housework
, around 80
percent
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per cent
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, followed by cleaning and pet care, ranging from 20 to 65
percent
Change the spelling
per cent
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. The most marginal percentage was found in
house
repair approximately 10
percent
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per cent
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. With regards to
females
, the percentages of the amount of
housework
were higher than males in all categories. A similar trend was witnessed where the minutes of average
time
females
spent on
housework
were greater in all categories except for
house
repairs, where
females
spent less than 10 minutes on average.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words housework, time, house, females with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "percentages" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 6 times.

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