The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below Leisure time in a typical week in hour by sex and employment status 19

The provided chart illustrates information regarding how many hours of free time males and females of different employment status had during the period of 1998 and 1999.

To begin with, it can be clearly seen that those who enjoyed the most leisure time were the unemployed and the retired ones. More specifically, in both of these cases women had an average of 78 hours of leisure time while men enjoyed approximately 7 hours more.

Moving on, 45 hours of leisure time accounted for the male employees in full time jobs with females having again less free time at around 38 hours. It can be seen that only women had chosen to work in part time jobs with the hours of leisure time enjoyment being exactly 40 hours per week. Last but not least, housewives had slightly more free time compared to those who were employed with a weekly average of 50 hours.