Not a culture, its a repressive requirement within a group of people.  If both genders were required to do this I would not feel this way.  It is a symbolic message of gender submission.   Give this some thought.  By extension what if"old white males" demanded wives paint their faces blue as part of their culture.  Don't do it and be excised from family freinds and community.  Would you see this as culture and a right of white people or white males?  I doubt it.