Terror groups prefer to use women to groom potential new members on social media because of their 'empathy and soft approach', researchers found.
Both Islamist organisations such as ISIS, and far-right terrorists, use women to target vulnerable individuals on social media, radicalise them and persuade them to join their 'cause'.
Research carried out on behalf of Facebook found that ISIS in particular had successfully used this tactic.
'They [women terrorists] put in the hours... That's when radicalisation works best,' Erin Saltman, lead manager of counterterrorism policy at Facebook, said according to The Times.
'They're very good at recruitment because it's a very human process - they're playing on grievances with world problems and offer membership to an extremist group as the solution.
'That's what is being sold and women are very good at those dialogues.'
Several British women who are known to have left the country to join ISIS in Syria in recent years have been actively trying to recruit others using social media.
Aqsa Mahmood, from Glasgow, Scotland, went to Syria to marry an ISIS fighter aged 20 in 2014, having been radicalised online.
Salma and Zahra Halane, known as the 'terror twins', left Manchester in June 2014 to join ISIS, and are then said to have been painting a romanticised image of life in Syria on social media.
They are said to have been radicalised over the internet themselves.
