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Despite working longer hours globally, leisure time has increased. Television viewing is the most popular leisure activity worldwide, with the British leading in TV consumption and also high rates of newspaper and book reading. Although many European women work full-time, they still handle most housework; UK men average six hours weekly compared to their wives' eighteen. This contributes to high stress and exhaustion levels among working women. British families spend minimal time preparing meals, favoring ready meals and takeaways, eating together infrequently. While UK young adults often begin full-time work by nineteen, Spanish and Italian counterparts start later, around twenty-four. American teenagers prioritize socializing over traditional hobbies, spending significant time on mobiles and in shopping malls, with minimal homework or sports participation. Conversely, UK pensioners are far more physically active than teenagers. Swedes and Finns demonstrate the highest rates of regular sports participation in Europe. While work hours have increased, the study questions the actual time spent actively working.

Althouth people all over the world are working longer
and longer hours, we alo have more leisure time than
ever before.
After aleeging und working. watching TV is by for the
MONt popular leisure activity the worid over. The British
watch more TY than any other batiot in Europe. but they
also read more The vast majority, eighty-five percent.
regularly read newpapers, and fifty-four percent regularly
reiad bools
Although up.to two thirds of modern uropean women
work full-time, they still do the main share of the
bousework, too. Hasbands belp in the house more than
they did in the past, but in the UK for esample, men do an
average of juit six hoars w week compured to their wlves.
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majority of working
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According fo the latest research by tupermarhets the
avernge British family "penda just eleven minutes preparing
tbe maln evening menl, and preters ready meals' and
in the tahewways UR eat fa togetber hote-cooked. only fool. once Almost month half or of. less. all families
More than half of young people In the UK have a fulltime
job by the age of nineteen, but the majority of young
Spanish and talian peopie do mot start full. time watk until
they are twenty-four.
The average American fourteen-year-old spenda anly half
an hour a day doing homework, ani less than a fifth of
young people participate in sports, clubs, music er otber
traditional hobbies instead, sisty-five percent say they
spend their time chatting on their mobiles and hanging out
with their frlends in shopping malls.
In the UM. pensioners are almost twioe as active as
five such teenagers. teenagers. spend. walking. spend nearly according only EWo. cycung la. hours seventy recent Bardening five day research of doing minutes, spurt, People physlcul while Hewever, over activities sixty
wurpriningly. people who uase the Internet regularty do more.
pport than people who nEVer. ue it.
The Swedes and Finns are the sportiest nationalities in
Europe. Seventy-three percent do some kind of sport at
leant ance or twice a week
People may spend more tie at work these days, but are
thry always working? The latest research reveals that eac