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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 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 line graphs illustrate the proportion of households that owned electrical appliances and the number of
hours
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 spent on housework per week from 1920 to 2019.
Overall
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,
ownership
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 of all three electrical appliances increased over the period, with refrigerators and
vacuum
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 cleaners showing the most significant growth.
In contrast
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, the amount of time spent on housework decreased substantially. In 1920, the
ownership
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 rate of wasching machine and
vacuum
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 cleaners was at 40% and 30% respectively,
while
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 no households owned a refrigerator. The proportion of families with a washing machine increased gradually to 70%,
while
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vacuum
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 cleaner
ownership
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also
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 stood at 70% in 1960.
In contrast
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, refrigerator
ownership
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 rose sharply to 90% in 1960 before reaching a peak at 100% in 1980 and remained until 2019. The family with a
vacuum
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 cleaner
also
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 grew steadily, hitting 100% in 2000 until 2019. Meanwhile, the figure for washing machines continued to rise gradually over the period, ending at 75% in 2019.
By contrast
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, the number of times spent on chores showed a significant drop over the period. In 1920, families spent around 50
hours
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 per week on housework, and
this
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 decreased to just above 30
hours
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 in 1940. By 1960, the number of
hours
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 had fallen to around 20
hours
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,
while
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ownership
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 of appliances had risen. In 2019, the time spent went down to only 10
hours
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 per week. As appliance
ownership
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 generally went up, the time spent on chores dropped.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "also, in contrast, while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, ownership, vacuum with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "decreased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "went down" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "gradually" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "significant" was used 2 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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