SAMPLE ANSWER FOR DEC 2014

QUESTION 2 Information Transfer

Introduction:

The chart given shows the average number of minutes per day British male and female
spend in doing domestic tasks.

Paragraph Development / Suggested points:

The tasks that were more likely to be done by women than men included cooking,
cleaning, washing and child care.
While women spent 74 minutes in doing tasks like cooking, baking and washing up, men
spent just 30 minutes.
Women were also far more active than men when it came to doing tasks like cleaning
and house tidying.
Women spent 58 minutes per day cleaning and house tidying as opposed to men who
spent just 13 minutes on those tasks.
The areas where men were more active than women were gardening, pet care and odd
maintenance jobs around the house.
On an average, men spent 49.5 minutes per day in gardening and pet care whereas
women spent 21 minutes on those tasks.
Women spent twice as much time as men on childcare.
They also accounted for nearly all the time spent on tasks like washing, ironing and
sewing
Women spent 25 minutes on washing, ironing and sewing clothes as opposed to men
who spent just 2 minutes doing that.
In short, women spent about four hours in doing household tasks while men spent less
than two and half hours.
Conclusion:
Overall, the chart shows that routine domestic chores are mainly done by women, while
men prefer doing tasks like household maintenance, gardening and pet care.