BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is head editor, Landscape News
The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. When I was a young girl, a friend and I spent our summers building a treehouse. We built it because our older brothers were building one and wouldn’t allow us to help them. So, we asked our parents to support us through the procurement of basic tools, collected scrap wood from the local hardware store, chose a tree, and then spent day after day puzzling beams and boards together into structure in which only people of our small size could fit.
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