2025 - Gateway Women

[WATCH NOW] World Childless Week webinar: ‘Childless, Old & Worthy!’ with the NomoCrones

September 20, 2025 Jody Day 0

A FREE WEBINAR HOSTED FOR WORLD CHILDLESS WEEK 2025. Watch all the webinars for WCW25 here. Sign up for the WCW newsletter here Sign up for Decemeber’s session – Celebrating Our Light In the English language, the only term of respect for a woman over sixty is ‘grandmother’ – all the other descriptions are insults. So it seems that, as we age as childless women, added to the already challenging judgements of pronatalism and sexism, comes ageism. However, beliefs are not like the laws of gravity; we don’t have to obey them. And learning to identify and push back against […]

[WATCH NOW] WORLD CHILDLESS WEEK WEBINAR: Our Stories – Finding Our Way Through The Pain Of Regret.

August 18, 2025 Jody Day 0

A WORLD CHILDLESS WEEK 2025 WEBINAR Sign up for the WCW newsletter here for info about ALL the free webinars offered 15-21st September. Click here to register/view all the webinars for this week Regret can be an emotion that many of us who are childless may struggle with at times. It’s a very normal human emotion, yet it can sometimes feel like a punishment for the decisions, circumstances and experiences that may have been part of our childless story. However, when unpacked self-compassionately, regret can be one of our most powerful teachers, guiding us towards a future more aligned with our […]

[WATCH NOW] Gateway Women Masterclass: ‘Single, Childless, Feminist: a discussion of Fabiana Formica’s book ‘Childless’ with Y.L. Wolfe & Fabiana Formica

July 13, 2025 Jody Day 0

‘Childless’ is self-published via Amazon and is available as a hardback, paperback and Kindle in most countries, including: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Italy (in English). I was honoured to be able to review the book ahead of publication and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since, hence bringing together the author, Fabiana Formica and Y.L. Wolfe, one of the finest thinkers and writers about the single, childless experience I know, for what was indeed a fascinating and meaningful discussion. For too long, the feminist aspects of the single-not-by-choice and childless-not-by-choice have been neglected in mainstream discourse, with […]

Father’s Day for the Non-Father: a guest blog by Sheridan Voysey, author, broadcaster and founder of Friendship Lab.

June 15, 2025 Jody Day 1

This is a guest blog by Sheridan Voysey for Gateway Women, originally published here in 2019. Sheridan is an author, broadcaster and founder of the Friendship Lab. www.sheridanvoysey.comYou can find more articles, books & resources for childless men here. As Sheridan Voysey writes: Not long ago I took part in a segment for a television breakfast show. As the cameraman and I drove to the filming location, he told me a story. “Last night some mates and I were in the pub,” he said, “and the conversation turned to depression. It turns out some of them have been on antidepressants. […]

[WATCH NOW] ‘Life After Menopause. Yes, it exists!’ – Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen, Sat 28 June 2025

June 1, 2025 Jody Day 0

For the last few years, menopause has been having a moment. Thank goodness. A flush of books, TV programs, magazine articles and podcasts, as well as governmental and organisational initiatives, are making secrecy around the ‘M Word’ a thing of the past. However, surprise, surprise, the menopause narrative tends to ignore the experience of women without children, with the notable exceptions of: Hagitude by Dr Sharon Blackie; Still Hot! by Kaye Adams & Vicky Allen, and Cracking The Menopause by Mariella Frostrup & Alice Smellie—all books that include interviews (or snippets) from me. I’ve also discussed it on podcasts such as The Hagitute Sessions and the Red School’s Menstruality Podcast. […]

[READ/WATCH] Mother’s Day Guest Post: ‘Holding Both’, by Carrie Hauskins

May 10, 2025 Jody Day 1

It’s the second Sunday of May in the US, the flowers are blooming, and the call to be in nature is strong. It’s also the day we honor and celebrate the mothers in our lives. But what if the day comes with grief? As an infertile woman, that’s precisely what comes: the grief of the life I never got. It’s something I thought I’d “get over.” Years later, I realized this might not be something I ever get over. With that simple acknowledgment, I allowed myself to feel the grief. This doesn’t mean it feels good. To be clear, it […]

[WATCH NOW] Gateway Women Masterclass: Navigating Mother’s Day as a Childless Woman, with Katy Seppi and Jody Day

April 28, 2025 Jody Day 0

RECORDED LIVE ON 10 MAY 2025 Katy Seppi and Jody Day talk Mother’s Day and More Mother’s Day takes place in May for most of the world, earlier in the year for the UK & Ireland. But whenever it lands for you, it’s rarely inconsequential for those of us who are childless not by choice. The day can be tricky for many intertwined reasons on top of our own thwarted motherhood, including mourning our own mothers and/or managing our challenging relationships with them; insensitive family members, colleagues and the wider culture; the exaggerated visibility of our difference on Mother’s Day […]

[WATCH NOW] GATEWAY WOMEN MASTERCLASS WEBINAR: AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW AND BOOK GIVEAWAY WITH LANA MANIKOWSKI

March 30, 2025 Jody Day 0

In this conversation, recorded on 12 April 2025, Jody Day, the founder of Gateway Women, speaks with Lana Manikowski, life coach and author of So Now What? Create a Life Your Love Without the Children You Always Dreamed Of, published in the US by LM Publishing on April 2nd, 2025, and which debuted at #1 in the ‘New Releases’ section of ‘Fertility & Infertility’ on Amazon.com. Lana shared with us all the various elements that inspired the cover design, did a short reading from her book, and we then discussed some of the questions sent in by the audience, including: […]

[WATCH NOW] Eldering in a Time of Collapse. Recorded Sat 29 March 2025.

March 1, 2025 Jody Day 0

Watch this extraordinary conversation between non-mother elderwomen from around the world, discussing what it is to be aging without children in these extraordinary times. Recorded live on Saturday 29 March, 2025. Thank you to my amazing panellists below (download clickable PDF here, or go to this webpage for full info and clickable links for each of them.) Find out more about Jody’s Gateway Elderwomen project here. Read Jody’s FREE essays on her Bestselling Substack ‘Gateway Elderwomen’ here. Join Jody’s ‘Childless Elderwomen’ subgroup (hosted by the Childless Collective) here. Join the Gateway Women newsletter so you don’t miss notice of the the […]