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According to feminist sociologists the reasons for differences in educational achievement between males and females was due to Gender language in education, Gendered roles, Gender stereotypes, History and Subject choice. Females have historically been marginalized in education. Even when education was made compulsory back in 1763, females were (regardless of class or status) still left out, being given only the opportunity to learn how to read and then were sent off to schools where they had to learn how to sow, etc. Males on the other hand were encouraged to finish their education as far as the family income allowed it. Feminist sociologists began looking at why, despite the fact that females- when allowed to go to school- often performed better than males at school, they were still left out. They explained it thus. Through Gender language in education they found the wider society reflected and how school textbooks ofte