The given charts illustrate the amount of time, in
minutes
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, spent by British citizens on household and leisure tasks in 2008 for both genders.
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Overall
, there were three main leisure Linking Words
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watching TV or videos, which accounted for the largest share of Punctuation problem
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for both genders, reading books, and doing sports exercises. Use synonyms
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, the average Linking Words
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varied between males and females.
On the one hand, the favourite leisure Use synonyms
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were watching TV or videos and listening to the radio, with 137 Use synonyms
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for men and 118 Use synonyms
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for women, surpassing reading books, which had approximately the same average for both genders. Meanwhile, practising sport ranked at the bottom, with only 15 Use synonyms
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for females.
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, women surpassed men in all household Linking Words
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on cooking and washing, 40 Use synonyms
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on shopping, and 25 Use synonyms
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on clothing and ironing. Use synonyms
Moreover
, men’s participation in household tasks ranged between 0 and 35 Linking Words
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, which was far lower compared to women’s share, except for repairing, where men spent 19 Use synonyms
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