Quote - of those women being forced to cover themselves..

Nobody is forced, they do it because they want to do it with few exceptions. Who is who teaches and promote religion to the children?
For most of Muslim women to appear in public without a burka have the same feeling as a Western woman to have to appear nude in public, of course some Western women don't care to be nude among people and some Muslim women don't care to not use burkas.
Beware media propaganda, there are always some groups behind the propaganda.

Quote - when you went to mass back then..the women were required to cover their heads.

You know... the church is full of angels floating above, women must cover their heads so the angels will not be able to see them and fall in temptation.
Those angels must be rather perverted!....

Stupidity also evolves!