In many countries in Africa, there is a rigid division of labor by gender in agriculture.

This very rigid institutional division of labour has rather serious implications in the public law field of decision-making processes, however.

However, schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science: a rigid division between the two prevailed:

Despite some initial excitement, his rigid division also failed to cohere as an agreed-upon new paradigm.

Nor can democracy be expected to work smoothly in a society with rigid divisions, producing a permanent majority and a permanent minority.

What people often don't grasp, couples say, is that there is no rigid division of labor in these partnerships.

These horizontal dimensions are not rigid divisions but instead reflect typical sizes of phenomena having certain dynamic characteristics.

His factory saved time and money by using interchangeable parts and a rigid division of labor.

Thus community, as an ideology, was a gloss that was placed upon the very rigid and authoritarian divisions within the village.

I didn't want to make a rigid division between the two things.