Studies on fiction from 1850 to 2010 show a consistent "gender agency gap," where female characters are persistently portrayed as more passive than their male counterparts.

In many parts of the world, forced womanhood isn't just a literary trope but a reality involving forced marriages and restricted access to education. Forced Womanhood Magazine - sciphilconf.berkeley.edu

The process where young girls are taught that their primary purpose is domesticity or pleasing others, often at the expense of their own agency.

Historically, laws restricted women’s ability to own property or control their own finances, effectively forcing them into traditional marital dependencies. Literary and Subcultural Contexts

In specific literary and digital contexts, "forced womanhood" also refers to a genre of fiction or subcultural practice involving (sometimes shortened to "forcefem").