Work in pairs. The chart below shows the average hours of housework per week by people of difficult sexes and with different marital status in Fantasia. Look at the chart then answer  the questions that follow. (Làm việc theo cặp. Nhìn biểu đồ dưới đây cho biết số giờ làm việc nhà trung bình hàng tuần bởi nhiều người khác phái và với tình trạng hôn nhân khác nhau ở Fantasia. Nhìn biểu đồ và trả lời câu hỏi kèm theo)

1. Who, in general, does more housework? (Nhìn tổng quát, ai làm việc nhà nhiều hơn?)

2. Do married women have to do more or less housework when they have more children? (Phụ nữ có gia đình phải làm việc nhà nhiều hay ít hơn khi họ có nhiều con hơn?)

3. Do married men have to do more or less housework when they have more children? (Đàn ông có gia đình phải làm việc nhà nhiều hay ít hơn khi họ có nhiều con hơn?)

4. How many hours do married men and women without children spend on their housework per week? (Phụ nữ và đàn ông kết hôn nhưng chưa có con làm việc nhà mấy giờ/tuần?)

5. How much time does it take men and women with one or two children to do their housework every week? (Phụ nữ và đàn ông có 1 hoặc 2 con mất bao nhiêu thời gian làm việc nhà mỗi tuần?)

6. What are the numbers of weekly housework hours that men and women with three or more children do respectively? (Số giờ mà đàn ông và phụ nữ có từ 3 con trở lên phải làm việc nhà mỗi tuần là gì?)

7. What do you think should be done to reduce the unequal distribution of housework hours per week between married men and women? (Bạn nghĩ gì nên làm để giảm phân phối không đồng đều số giờ làm việc nhà hàng tuần giữa nam giới và phụ nữ đã kết hôn?

Guide to answer

1. In general, married women do more housework than men.

2. They have to do more housework when they have more children.

3. Married men have to do less housework when they have more children.

4. Married men and women without children spend 20 and 30 hours on their housework per week respectively.

5. It takes men and women with one or two children 15 and 50 hours respectively to do their housework every week.

6. They are 10 and 55.

7. Married men should spend more time sharing the housework with their wives.

Write a report describing the information shown in the column chart in Task 1. Begin your report with. (Viết bài tường thuật mô tả thông tin được cho ở biểu đồ cột à Task 1. Bắt đầu bài tường thuật của em với)

The column chart illustrates the average housework hours per week by married women in comparison with married men.

Guide to answer

Report 1

The column chart illustrates the average housework hours per week by married women in comparison with married men.

As seen in the chart, there is the distinctive difference in the average hours of housework in households. In childless families, the gap of housework hours per week between men and women is not largely. Women do some 30 hours per week, meanwhile men’s contribution in housework is about 20 hours.

In families of one or two children, however, the number of men’s housework hours decreases to 15 hours, but women’s number of housework rises even to 50. Undoubtedly the cause of this rise is due to childcare.

And amazingly in households with three or more children, the inequality becomes more distinct. Men work fewer hours than about 10 hours, but women’s housework hours rise to 55 per week.

The chart shows that the inequality in housework between husband and wife should be resolved. It is important that women should be liberated from the unreasonable burden of familial responsibilities. And to get the target, men should do their share of housemaking.

Report 2

The column chart illustrates the average housework hours per week by married women in comparison with married men in Fantasia.

In households where there are no children, women are reported to work some 30 hours per week in house work. Men’s contribution to this work averages a considerably lower 18 hours.

When children enter the household, however, the inequality becomes even more pronounced. In families of 1 – 2 children, men maintain approximately the same number of hours of housework as in childless households, but the number of hours women work in the home rise to 52 per week, much of which, no doubts, is due to childcare responsibilities.

Interestingly, when there are three or more children in the household, men are found to work even fewer hours around the house than before the appearance of the third child. Whereas women’s unpaid hours rise to approximately 56 per week, the corresponding figure for men, 16, actually represents a decrease.

The chart suggests that if women are to gain social equality, they should first be liberated from familial responsibilities. This can only be done if men lend a more helpful hand to women in doing domestic chores.