As Women’s History Month just came to an end, it is important to celebrate the strong women behind the fight to save Europe. In the United States, the caricature of a strong, independent woman is associated with left-wing beliefs that women can do it all without a man. But in Europe, women have taken up the fight to save European civilization from the forces of immigration and multiculturalism — forces that seek to push first-world countries back into the third world.

In France, you have two members of the Le Pen clan, Marine and Marion, who are fighting to keep France French. Marine, the daughter of the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, leads National Rally, an anti-immigration party that has been getting closer and closer to power with each legislative election. No wonder they just hit her with embezzlement charges and barred her from running for future office. Marion, who recently left Reconqueté, a right-wing party that combines the anti-immigration platform of RN with policies of economic liberty, started her own party called Identity-Liberties. This socially and economically conservative nationalist party seeks to lay the foundations for a right-wing nationalist coalition to take control of the French Parliament.

In Italy, you have Giorgia Meloni, who recently took her party, Brothers of Italy, from a measly 4.4% of the vote in 2018 to 26% in 2022. This success made Meloni the first female prime minister of Italy and the first member of a so-called “far-right” party to obtain the top position in any European country. And while Meloni has been justly criticized for breaking some of her campaign promises on immigration, her two-headed accomplishment should be celebrated regardless.

In Germany, you have Alice Weidel, the co-chairwoman of Alternative for Germany, whose recent run for chancellor fell short of its goal but nevertheless secured her party’s status as the top opposition party in Europe. Weidel, unlike Marine Le Pen or Giorgia Meloni, has secured this electoral accomplishment without moderating her party’s stance on the existential question of immigration, advocating a policy of remigration and securing the overseas support of Elon Musk.

Moving to Denmark reveals probably the most peculiar case — that of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Although a staunch advocate of big government, Frederiksen has been more effective than any majority party in Europe, including those on the Right. Frederiksen has enacted a “zero refugee” policy coupled with a policy of remigration — all part of the government’s overall objective of reducing the number of foreign-born individuals living in Denmark. Furthermore, Frederikson has violated a core tenet of Western liberalism: recognizing that not all cultures are equal. One of Frederiksen’s aims is to implement caps on the number of “non-Western” immigrants allowed into Denmark. These hard-line policies are exactly what Denmark needed after years of welcoming foreigners from non-Western countries.

So why is it that women in Europe have become leaders of patriotic immigration reform, but women in the United States are at the barricades deeming such reform as “repugnant,” “xenophobic,” or “racist”? This trend is likely because the composition of immigration experienced in Europe differs from that in the United States. In Europe, the migrants arriving come from Islamic societies — societies that believe women should be kept separate from the public sphere. Conversely, the immigrants arriving in the United States come from societies that treat women with more respect than extremist Muslims.

The idea of legal and political equality of the sexes — along with many of the rights and liberties we enjoy today — is the distinct product of European civilization. It only makes sense that European women like Le Pen, Meloni, and Weidel are at the forefront of the fight to defend these rights. And for their efforts, we should celebrate them, especially when celebrating the achievement of women more broadly.