"rigid division" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a strict separation or categorization of something. For example, "The rules of the office had a rigid division between acceptable and unacceptable behavior."
By the Achaemenian period there developed a more rigid division of society into four basic classes: priests, nobles, farmers/herdsmen, and artisans.
In marriages formed since the 1990s, couples who share household work more equally tend to have more sex and to rate their sex lives and marital happiness higher than couples who cling to a more rigid division of labour.
But the underlying principle (beside France's great number of fonctionnaires and their stringently meritocratic and bureaucratic orders) is France's rigid division between public and private on which the affaire of Dominique Strauss-Kahn turned the spotlight.
Just as society's attitudes were consolidating into rigid division that outlawed the homosexual, Whitman's poetry and his life proclaimed that the possibilities of desire were not so easily characterized and contained.
As Wilson describes it, this is the first step on the path to the highly ordered society, with its rigid division of labour, that has made the social insects, along with humans, the most successful species on earth.
They uphold a rigid division of labor: Mr. Goldberg is the starring pianist, and the music, complex but never cold, is by Mr. Klein, who sticks to Fender Rhodes keyboard throughout.
THE world of bonds is usually thought of as one of rigid divisions.
At the centre was rejection of the rigid divisions in British music-making.
The couples who reported the least stress tended to have rigid divisions of labor, whether equal or not.
This too helps to make the fuselage light and strong.The traditional rigid divisions into first, business and economy classes have gone.
For thousands of women, belonging to the suffragette cause gave colour and meaning to their lives, and their unflinching activism played a part in the much wider transformation of our society – it moved us away from the rigid divisions of class, gender and race to the more inclusive and enabling context we live in today.
