Stressing that women have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic globally, Facebook on Tuesday said that female-led small and medium businesses (SMBs) were more likely than male-led SMBs to report that they were closed, even when taking into account factors like size of business, sector and geography.

Nearly 23 per cent of all female business leaders stated that they spent six hours or more per day on domestic responsibilities, compared to only 11 per cent of men, according to the fourth edition of Facebook's �Global State of Small Business Report'.