Gender differences in the average working week

7 hours

Longer male working week

Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors

6 hours

Longer male working week

Charitable organisation managers and directors

6 hours

Longer male working week

Leisure and sports managers and proprietors

5 hours

Longer male working week

Publicans and managers of licensed premises

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2022

#	Occupation	Average female working week 2022	Average male work weeking 2022	Difference
1	Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors	40 hours	47 hours	7 hours
2	Charitable organisation managers and directors	38 hours	44 hours	6 hours
3	Leisure and sports managers and proprietors	42 hours	48 hours	6 hours
4	Publicans and managers of licensed premises	43 hours	48 hours	5 hours
5	Travel agency managers and proprietors	38 hours	43 hours	5 hours
6	Garage managers and proprietors	40 hours	45 hours	5 hours
7	Waste disposal and environmental services managers	38 hours	43 hours	5 hours
8	Managers and proprietors in other services n.e.c.	37 hours	42 hours	5 hours
9	Programmers and software development professionals	42 hours	47 hours	5 hours
10	Production managers and directors in manufacturing	38 hours	42 hours	4 hours
11	Marketing, sales and advertising directors	36 hours	40 hours	4 hours
12	Public relations and communications directors	39 hours	43 hours	4 hours
13	Purchasing managers and directors	37 hours	41 hours	4 hours
14	Managers in transport and distribution	40 hours	44 hours	4 hours
15	Biological scientists	38 hours	42 hours	4 hours
16	Biochemists and biomedical scientists	37 hours	41 hours	4 hours
17	Physical scientists	39 hours	43 hours	4 hours
18	Web design professionals	39 hours	43 hours	4 hours
19	Generalist medical practitioners	40 hours	44 hours	4 hours
20	Specialist medical practitioners	39 hours	43 hours	4 hours
21	Production managers and directors in construction	40 hours	43 hours	3 hours
22	Production managers and directors in mining and energy	39 hours	42 hours	3 hours
23	Financial managers and directors	36 hours	39 hours	3 hours
24	Human resource managers and directors	36 hours	39 hours	3 hours
25	Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors	41 hours	44 hours	3 hours
26	Managers in storage and warehousing	40 hours	43 hours	3 hours
27	Property, housing and estate managers	38 hours	41 hours	3 hours
28	Managers and directors in the creative industries	41 hours	44 hours	3 hours
29	Natural and social science professionals n.e.c.	38 hours	41 hours	3 hours
30	Civil engineers	39 hours	42 hours	3 hours
31	Engineering project managers and project engineers	39 hours	42 hours	3 hours
32	Engineering professionals n.e.c.	38 hours	41 hours	3 hours
33	IT network professionals	39 hours	42 hours	3 hours
34	Information technology professionals n.e.c.	37 hours	40 hours	3 hours
35	Graphic and multimedia designers	37 hours	40 hours	3 hours
36	Functional managers and directors n.e.c.	37 hours	39 hours	2 hours
37	Chemical scientists	40 hours	42 hours	2 hours
38	Electrical engineers	40 hours	42 hours	2 hours
39	IT business analysts, architects and systems designers	37 hours	39 hours	2 hours
40	Cyber security professionals	38 hours	40 hours	2 hours
41	IT quality and testing professionals	40 hours	42 hours	2 hours
42	Mechanical engineers	43 hours	42 hours	1 hours
43	Electronics engineers	42 hours	43 hours	1 hours
44	Aerospace engineers	43 hours	42 hours	1 hours
45	Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture	45 hours	45 hours	0 hours

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