Since biblical days, societies have imposed limits on the terms under which people can borrow money.
Then teenage peer pressure takes over, and finally, once society has imposed its demands, freedom is more restricted still.
Democratic capitalist society cannot impose Christianity on its people.
One of the lessons high schools are not teaching today is that society imposes limits, standards, restrictions.
The reason this occurs is because society has imposed its values about gender roles upon individual people.
That is particularly important when society imposes the ultimate punishment: the death penalty.
It's not a free choice: it is what society imposes today.
That is why society imposed such strictures in the first place!
I don't really see this as a "requirement" which "society" has imposed upon women.
One is critical of the restraints which a patriarchal society imposes on men.