Jody Day
Jody Day | |
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| Known for | founder of Gateway Women |
Jody Day is an author. She is the founder of Gateway Women, a network for childless women.[1][2][3][4] Day was named one of BBC'S 100 Women for 2013.[5]
Jody Day is the director of an interior design company, with a degree in English literature.[2] A former psychotherapist, in 2009, at the age of 44, she realized that she would never be a mother and set up a network of childless women aged 35 and over, named Gateway Women.[2] She launched the Gateway Women blog in 2011.[6][7]
Her book, Living the Life Unexpected and Rocking the Life Unexpected, helps people who cannot become parents to go through the stages of grief.
References
[edit]- ^ "Living the Life Unexpected: A Conversation with Jody Day". Life Without Baby. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ a b c Carroll, Helen (24 February 2012). "I may not be a mother – but I'm still a person". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Attitudes to women aging without children can be surprisingly cruel". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Kutchinsky, Serena. "'I'm childless, single, middle-aged and infertile, and it's fine'". Prospectmagazine.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ "100 Women: Who took part?". BBC News. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Smith, Mary Cate (26 December 2022). "The festive period can be crushing for some families without children". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
- ^ "Breaking the silence of childlessness". The Southern Star. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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