Biography:Jody Day
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Jody Day is an author. She is the founder of Gateway Women, a network for childless women.[1][2][3][4] She was named one of BBC'S 100 Women for 2013.[5]
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
- ↑ "Living the Life Unexpected: A Conversation with Jody Day". 18 April 2016. http://lifewithoutbaby.com/2016/04/18/living-life-unexpected-conversation-jody-day/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Carroll, Helen (24 February 2012). "I may not be a mother – but I'm still a person" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/25/child-free-women-jody-day.
- ↑ "Attitudes to women aging without children can be surprisingly cruel" (in en-GB). The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/ageing-without-children-is-scary-lonely-and-cruel---but-we-dont/.
- ↑ Kutchinsky, Serena. "'I'm childless, single, middle-aged and infertile, and it's fine'". http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blogs/serena-kutchinsky/jody-day-gateway-womenim-childless-single-middle-aged-and-infertile-and-its-fine. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ↑ "100 Women: Who took part?" (in en-GB). BBC News. 22 November 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24579511.
- ↑ Smith, Mary Cate (2022-12-26). "The festive period can be crushing for some families without children" (in en). Irish Examiner. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-41031092.html.
- ↑ "Breaking the silence of childlessness" (in en). https://www.southernstar.ie/life/breaking-the-silence-of-childlessness-4240822.
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