Well, in most countries, women didn't have the right to open a bank account and needed permission to work outside the home (have a wage). They didn't inherited properties, instead, their husbands were the ones who owned everything. Including inheritances from the woman's parents.

Since you do need money to live, women were given two options: prostitution and other things outside the system or become wives. As wives they have to make their husbands happy or they would divorce leaving them with nothing. Literally. Hence forcing those women to become prostitutes or get whatever job they could earning very little. Notice that in those case, they would also face more insecurity and unsafety. And if they don't married, their fathers would be the ones who would own their income and assets. Or they would have to do in the margins. No back account (easier to steal from you).

And that is not taking into account arranged marriages, that were also common in some communities in the past. Well, now that I think of it, in some places that still happen.

But for modern countries, women were expected to marry and weren't really given many options. When a woman didn't marry, it was because her father or maybe a brother was the one taking care of her. I forgot, they could also become nuns. XD

My grandmas are an example. Both of them wanted to study. They liked it. One was allowed by her father, but she had to settle for studying to become a teacher instead of maths, since maths wasn't allowed to women. She did worked at her father's shop, but it was a family business, so she didn't had a wage. And while she inherited her father business along a couple of houses with her sister, it was my grandfather who decided what to do with that money.

The other grandmother got a full scholarship to go to art school but her father decided that she "didn't needed to study to marry". Notice that her brother not only was allowed to study, but that he also was given money for doing it and inherited everything. My grandma married and once her children grow up, she asked my grandfather to go to the university. My grandfather decided "there was no need". And that was it. No university for that grandma.

So could have they done what most modern women do today? Not really. Maybe they could have worked as cleaning ladies or something like that illegally. They could have become nuns, I suppose. But their situation wouldn't really have been as good as we have today.

As I said, no bank account, no right to create and own their own business (they needed a husband or father approval), not allowed to work without the approval of a husband or a father, etc.

So yes, they were forced to marry by a society that didn't allowed to do most things needed to have money and survive.

To be fair, I don't consider domestic task as demeaning, I do consider them boring and time consuming. XD But I also consider them needed to live. So the fairer solution is either pay someone to do it or divide those task so the burden is less.