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human
The issue in most of these cases is not the garment, but whether a woman is forced to wear it or if it's her own choice. In Iran women are required to wear a hijab in public, whether they wish to or not. I'm not aware of anywhere that women are forced to wear a habit against their will.
gpt
It may also be that a habit is a uniform for a profession of sorts. Nuns are “professionals”, same as priests. While the hijab/burqa are social uniforms that are by and large forced on the general female population and there is no male equivalent.