Time spent on chosen activities by Rural and Urban Women The bar graph indicates the time spent on activities like cooking, watching T.V., indulging in hobbies, rearing children, and reading, by rural and urban women. Surprisingly, in all the five areas, the urban women spend more time than the rural women. Perhaps the field work or other manual labor that the rural women take up, leaves them with little time for the chosen activities. On cooking, if the rural women spend less than one hour, the urban women spend nearly two hours. Similarly, if less than half an hour is spent on watching T.V. by the rural women, the time indicated against the urban women is nearly one and a half hours. If the rural women spend negligible time on their hobby, the urban women keep aside at least an hour for the same. The biggest gap is seen in the time taken on rearing children. If the rural women spend less than half an hour on rearing children, the urban women spend nearly two and a half hours on the same. The entry for reading is the lowest of all the activities for both rural and urban women. Understandably the urban women have a higher percentage in this area.
