At a time in America and the world, when “bro culture” seems dominant and our new president, Donald Trump, is busy cracking down on immigrants and human rights, it will be the women who can be counted on to stand up and say: enough.

Think about it.

Trump has unleashed a barrage of executive orders sowing chaos and confusion in America and around the world. That initially included a freeze on trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans allocated by Congress. But then his order was reversed. Why?

To save the day, a federal judge in the District of Columbia stepped in to block the order in response to mounting lawsuits.

The judge who saved the day: Judge Loren L. AliKhan, born in Baltimore County.

Judge Alikhan is one of several women leaders making her voice heard.

Remember, it was the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., Mariann Budde, who spoke in front of Trump at the Washington National Cathedral last month. She dared to defend the rights of immigrants and the LGBT community with the first lady in the front row. “Have mercy,” she said to a stunned president.

Bishop Budde is not alone in pushing back. In fact, she is just one in a long line of strong women — women who speak truth to power.

Recall that it was another Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray, the first African-American woman ordained in that faith, who also stood up for marginalized communities years ago.

Born in Baltimore in 1910, Murray became a civil rights organizer, priest, and lawyer who spoke up for the rights of LGBT people before it was fashionable to do so.

Standing up to power is risky. Consider Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As an inspector general, she resisted Trump’s order firing all IGs, declaring the administration had not followed proper protocols. Fong was escorted out of her office last month.

Many women over the decades have stood up and defied the odds in furtherance of deeply held values.

Mamie B. Todd died three years ago. The granddaughter of slaves, she helped create the Maryland Child Protective Services Agency to protect abused children. Later she worked to establish a School of Social Work at the University of Maryland.

The Harriet Tubman Museum on the Eastern Shore reminds us of another woman of valor. Tubman fought hard for the rights of women to vote and for gender equality.

Beyond our shores when you widen the lens you find women leaders pushing back against Trump as he seeks to crack down on transgender people, immigrants and those who do not swear allegiance to him.

Internationally, women leaders are responding smartly to unprecedented challenges.

In response to Trump’s stated desire to take over Greenland, leaders in Denmark have pushed back. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen bluntly told our president that Greenland is not for sale.

Vivian Motzfeldt, Greenland’s minister of statehood, announced steps to increase military capacities in the Arctic in response to American threats to seize territory under their control.

Our neighbor to the south is also headed by a woman president: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum — the first woman to hold that office.

Sheinbaum is under enormous pressure from Trump on immigration but is responding with a calm, compassionate tone, stressing that any immigrants sent from the United States will be treated with dignity and respect — the same humanitarian approach used by other women leaders in that country. And this week she managed to get Trump to pause tariffs on Mexico for a month while her team makes adjustments at the border to curtail drugs and illegal immigration.

“Mexico will do everything necessary to care for its compatriots and will allocate whatever is necessary to receive those who are repatriated,” says the Mexican interior minister, Rosa Icela Rodriguez.

Around the world, women are standing up to protect against threats to the interests of all, from reproductive rights to immigrant rights.

Defending American and global values takes hard work. In these times of trauma and assaults on freedom, look to the women from counties to countries to stand up and be counted. Today, more than two dozen countries have a woman at the top of their government. They have weathered storms before and will do so again.

As Eleanor Roosevelt once said: “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”

Tara Sonenshine is a senior fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She served as U.S. under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in the Obama administration.