Tuesday, January 25, 2022

IELTS Task 1 - Vertical Bar Graph: Weekly leisure hours for men and women

The vertical bar chart portrays the number of hours of leisure enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998-99, according to gender and employment status. The data is calibrated in hours.

From an overall perspective, it is apparent that among those employed full-time, men on average had 50 hours of leisure, whereas women had approximately 37 hours. There were no figures for male part-time workers, but female part-timers had 40 hours of leisure time, only slightly more than women in full-time employment, perhaps reflecting their work in the home.

Stating further, as expected, both unemployed and retired people relished upwards of approximately 90 leisure hours per week, closely followed by females at about 80. Lastly, female homemakers enjoyed approximately 54 hours of leisure, while no figures were reported for their male counterparts.

Overall, for the reported categories, men enjoyed slightly more leisure time than women.