JODY DAY is the English/Irish founder of Gateway Women (2011), the world’s best-known champion for childless-not-by-choice women, and sometimes described as the founder of the ‘childless movement’.

An author, speaker, systems thinker, community builder, Work That Reconnects facilitator and integrative psychotherapist, she’s known for her best-selling Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children (Self-Published 2013; PanMac 2016/2020) and her TEDx talk ‘The Lost Tribe of Childless Women,’ which has been watched more than 200,000 times.

Now in her early sixties, she is increasingly focused on practical and existential challenges of elderhood without motherhood, and is co-creating the first local Alterkin Circle (Alternative Kinship Circle), and charting its development on her Substack, Gateway Elderwomen; winning a coveted Advantages of Age award for her writing in 2025.

Jody’s been a World Childless Week Ambassador since its inception in 2017, was a founding and former board member at the UK Charity Ageing Without Children, and is a former Fellow in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School. After a lifetime in London, she now lives in a tiny hamlet on the Atlantic coast of West Cork, Ireland.