Women in power are intimidating. I do not just mean women who have careers, but women who hold a leadership position that is usually male dominated. I have always found myself, even if just a little, intimidated by these women.

The fact that women are increasingly attaining more jobs that are typically known as “men’s jobs” astonishes me and I think that is where the core of this silly little intimidation comes from: our naïvety. However, it is also a fact that I admire with great enthusiasm what these individually independent women have gone through to get to where they are today.

I have had the pleasure and honor to meet and listen to some amazing San Antonio judges talk about their story and how they got to where they are now all because they pursed their dreams, and even more admiring is the fact that these Latinas are getting these leadership positions.

It gives young minds like myself the aspiration and real-life example, instead of a statistical one, that women have always been able to be whoever they want and can break out of the mold that has been fabricated for us through generations of prejudice and patriarchy.

I had to grow up in two different cultures that have a funny way of always looking at women as the housewives or even degrading us instead of supporting and praising us. Sometimes, I wonder how the youngest country of the world can hold the oldest ideologies and patriarchal ego when it comes to treating her people; equality is still a dreamer’s goal but every day, every activist, and every new generation slowly brings us closer to a new wave of thinking and treating each other with better respect and equality.

But until this day comes, women in power are intimidating.