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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.

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The charts illustrate changes in the proportion of
households
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 owning three electrical appliances—washing machines, refrigerators and
vacuum
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 cleaners—
as well as
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 the average amount of time spent on housework per week in one country between 1920 and 2019.
Overall
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, ownership of all three appliances increased considerably over the period, with refrigerators and
vacuum
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 cleaners eventually becoming almost universal. At the same time, the number of
hours
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 spent on housework declined dramatically. In 1920, washing machines were the most common appliance, owned by approximately 40% of
households
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, compared with 30% for
vacuum
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 cleaners,
while
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 virtually no
households
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 had a refrigerator. Refrigerator ownership
then
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 rose sharply to around 55% in 1940 and 90% in 1960, before reaching 100% in 1980.
Similarly
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, the proportion of
households
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 with a
vacuum
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 cleaner increased steadily from 30% to 100% by 2000. Washing-machine ownership grew more slowly, rising to 70% in 1960 before falling slightly to around 65% in 1980 and eventually reaching approximately 75% in 2019. Meanwhile, weekly housework fell from about 50
hours
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 in 1920 to 35
hours
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 in 1940 and 20
hours
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 in 1960. It
subsequently
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 decreased to around 15
hours
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 in 1980 and 2000, before reaching just 10
hours
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 per week in 2019.

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Vocabulary: Rephrase your introduction. Words match: 67%.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words households, vacuum, hours with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "changes" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "fall" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "approximately" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 3 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • ownership
  • electrical appliances
  • housework
  • time frame
  • variables
  • trends
  • significant milestones
  • turning points
  • correlation
  • reduction
  • influenced
  • societal implications
  • quality of life
  • gender roles
  • economic implications
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