Gay Bryant

Gay Bryant is a British-born editor and writer. She is credited with popularizing the "glass ceiling" concept.

Early life

Bryant was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. She attended St. Clare’s in Oxford for a year, intending to be a writer. In London, she became a junior fashion editor at Queen. During this period, she met playwright/director/social entrepreneur ED Berman and worked with him at the Mercury Theatre in North London. In 1969 she began a publishing career in New York.

Career

Gay Bryant came to the US magazine world as part of the team that launched Penthouse. Before she was thirty, she began a feminist magazine, New Dawn, and continued making new publications thereafter; she was a founding editor of Working Woman and author of The Working Woman Report/Succeeding in Business in the 80's. She is credited with popularizing the "glass ceiling" concept. Also in 1984, Bryant used the term glass ceiling in a chapter of the book The Working Woman Report: Succeeding in Business in the 1980s. In the same book, Basia Hellwig used the term glass ceiling in another chapter. Academy of Women Achievers YWCA 1979.

Published works She has written numerous articles and three books: The Working Woman Report/Succeeding in Business in the 80s Simon & Schuster 1984 ; The Underground Travel Guide Award Books,1973,1974 How I Learned To Like Myself Warner Books,1975

Personal life Bryant was married to the African-American writer, Charles Childs, with whom she has two children.