Introduction The role of women in society has been evolving as time progresses. In the late 19 th century, many nations had imbalanced demographics. Men dominated virtually all social structures. However, in modern society, such dominance has changed. Women are acquiring a strategic role in society. The question of how gender has evolved attracts large scholarly research, which is often open to criticism. This paper summarizes two articles that discuss various gender and language issues from a sociolinguistics perspective. Sex and Gender in Variationist Research by Jenny Cheshire Background The article opens the debate on sex by identifying various ways of categorizing people in terms of demographic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, and social classes. However, it reckons that sex has been one of the most politicized issues. It has attracted problems in terms of its contextualization. For example, major political and social debates on sex arise due to feminist theoretical claims that have been raised in scientific and other collective studies. From a variationist viewpoint, the article reveals how a similar approach is followed in the process of gender differentiation, amid the evident variations of terminologies. For example, what is referred to like sex in science and humanistic studies is now termed as gender in variationist studies. The article presents sex as the psychological difference between males and females. Gender means cultural and social elaborations of sexual differences. This process leads to the restriction of anticipations, opportunities, and various social roles while defining sex and gender. Although these two terms find application in variationist studies, the article presents gender as a more appropriate term for categorization compared to sex. In further discussions of the article, it uses the term sex to imply any simplistic way of classifying speakers as females or males. The term gender is used to refer to cultural and social stratification aspects. It adopts a structure that is designed to demonstrate the manner in which researchers approach the issue of gender and sex with respect to language variations. It first investigates various studies that have deployed the terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ as variables that have not been analyzed when discussing different speakers. It also discusses the mechanisms in which gender and language interact within particular communities. Finally, it describes the place of gender and sex in quantitative studies using pragmatic and syntactic features. Language Variations The article discusses language variation with respect to speakers’ sex, sociolinguistic variables, and masculinity and femininity. It addresses the subject of gender from psychosocial and analytical discourses and beyond variations of phonology. From the context of speakers’ sex, the article identifies various studies that address a particular phonological variation among women and men. For example, it confirms a higher usage of the alveolar variant of ‘ing.’ While contextualizing this variation, one form may be normalized depending on its repeated usage of informal communication. The article identifies two principles of understanding speakers’ sex variation of languages. Under the sociolinguistic categorization, men deploy standard forms of language relative to women. From a different context, women depict a preference for the incoming prestige in relation to men. Sociolinguistic variables cause disparities in language use. Indeed, the article confirms that the high prevalence of the usage of standard forms of a language under stable sociolinguistic variables ha