Morrissey found it terrible that people were so rigidly divided, that men could only like men's things and women women's things.
In Flatland Abbott describes a society rigidly divided into classes.
The society is rigidly divided into subgroups where each Quom is assigned a profession.
Persian society was rigidly divided into classes, and class position usually translated directly into political power.
The society in this Dimension was rigidly divided into Lords and everybody else.
Cars were only invented 100 years ago and before that society was rigidly divided on gender lines.
Spartan society in the classical period was rigidly divided into several castes, each with assigned duties and privileges.
By then Europe and, at its heart, Germany, were rigidly divided on the ideological, political, economic and military levels.
Barasana society is rigidly divided along sexual lines.
Students would learn through hands-on projects rather than textbooks or in a classroom where the time was rigidly divided among subjects like English or math.