I was interested by females performing so much better everywhere in English. I looks at the AP Data from 2017. It looks like the mean scores for males and female on the two AP English tests are quite similar (males a smidge higher than females on AP Lang & Comp; girls a bit higher on AP Lit).
The big difference is that females take 63% of the tests.
Compared to the percent of female test takers, females are slightly over-represented in the scores of 5s in AP Lit and 2s in AP Comp. Slightly under-represented in the 5s (and 2s somewhat) in AP Comp and the 1s in AP Lit. Pretty much average in other scores levels.