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 two charts illustrate the ownership trends of three labour-saving appliances - washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner and the average weekly duration of housework per household from 1920 to 2019 in a particular country.

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, all household appliances witnessed a sharp surge in popularity, and the

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burden of chores was drastically reduced. In 1920, only 40% of homes

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a washing machine, after which it saw a significant increase to 70% in 1960, before experiencing a minor dip to just 65% and ending the period at a slight rise to 75% in 2019. Vacuum cleaners, once owned by just 30%, saw a consistent rise to full saturation by 2000, where it remained. Refrigerators,

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absent in all homes, became ubiquitous in 1980 and

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level. Simultaneously, the weekly time commitment to housework in every household curbed considerably from 50 hours to just only 10 hours in 2019,

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by a steady downward trend over the century.