... intend to explore some of these inequalities in education and shall compare two forms of feminism whilst highlighting the differing research questions they generate concerning inequality and education. By describing both Liberal and Radical feminist thought I shall bring in modern theorists and statistical evidence to provide a valid conclusion. The feminist movement can be traced back to the eighteenth century, when the works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) were highly developed for their time. She was one of the first to attack educational restrictions in her best-known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), condemning them as a way to keep women in "...a state of ignorance and dependant on men" (Wollstonecraft, 1792). Her work called for a fundamental shift in society's perception of women, arguing that girls are forced into passivity, conceit, and credulity by lack of physical and mental stimulus, and by a constant insistence on the need ...

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