Studies have shown that women do use code switching more than men do. In this regard, in her research on Moroccan women, Sadiqi (2013) has stated that ‘Both men and women do use code switching in their everyday conversation in Morocco, but code-switching is more associated with women than men’ (p. ). The features of speech that women share are part of the motivations of their use of code switching. Women as a social group do care about prestige. Therefore, they are likely to code switch in their social interactions. They manipulate with codes whenever it is necessary to express themselves and achieve their purpose in a highly prestigious way. For instance, in Algeria, women do code switch between Algerian Arabic and French which is
