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Gay Bryant (born 5th October 1945, Newcastle-On-Tyne, England) is a British-born writer who has worked for more than thirty years as a magazine editor and developer in the USA, Europe and Australia. She is credited with popularizing the enduring “glass ceiling” concept in print in the 1980s. [1]

Early Life and Education

Born 5th of October 1945 to Richard and Catherine (nee Sheil). She attended Northallerton Grammar School and St. Clare’s in Oxford for a year, intending to be a writer. In London,she became a junior fashion editor at Queen (LINK). During this period, she met another aspiring writer, ED Berman (LINK) who was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Gay later helped Berman gain the position of Resident Playwright at the Mercury Theatre in north London, then assisted him with his productions there and elsewhere. On his advice, she left London in 1969 to explore wider horizons in the USA and began her publishing career in New York.

Career in Editing and Writing

Gay Bryant came to the US magazine world in the 1970's as a founding member of the team that launched Penthouse in America. She launched her own women's magazine, New Dawn (LINK) before she was thirty, and continued making an impact on women and men’s publications for major media cooperations on three continents. Notably, she served as a Vice President at the New York Times Magazine Group, editing Family Circle, which was then the world's largest women's magazine (LINK wiki) and as editor at NewsCorp in Rupert Murdoch’s magazine groups in the USA and Australia. Bryant won the 1992 National Magazine Award for General Excellence in her role as editor-in-chief of Mirabella. She earlier won attention as the editor developing the then ground-breaking magazine, Working Woman, (LINK) where she was the first to identify the phrase, “the glass ceiling” (LINK). Bryant helping to develop or turnaround of a wide range of magazines in the 80s and 90s. She now works as a media project editor and is co-founder of a custom publishing company and an internet start-up. Bryant was also an adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Journalism.

Editorships (Partial List)

Founder, Editorial Director, New Dawn, 1975-1979 Editor, Working Woman 1979 to 1984 Vice President, Editor, Family Circle 1984-86 Editor, In Fashion 1987 Editor, New Woman 1988 -1990 Editor, Mirabella 1991-1995 Executive Female Magazine, NAFE Editorial Director, Murdoch Magazines, Sydney, Australia 1995-2000 Editor-in-Chief, Success Magazine Senior Editor, Fortune Small Business Magazine, 2006-2007  Publications The Working Woman Report/Succeeding in Business in the 80's (with the editors) ISBN #09841645 The Underground Travel Guide Award Books, 1973, 1974 How I Learned To Like Myself (With Bockris & Wylie) Warner Books, 1975

Personal Life

Bryant married Charles Childs on April 10th 1982. They have two children; Sandra Helena Childs and Nelson Fernandes Childs.

Voluntary Work

Adviser to Inter-Action Social Enterprise Trust, 2014- Adviser to Fab-Foundation UK (HLINK), 2015-  References

[1] The Glass Ceiling: Who Said That? | The Glasshammer theglasshammer.com/2009/04/09/the-glass-ceiling-who-said-that/ The Wall Street Journal How the 'glass ceiling' became such a powerful — and problematic ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../how-the-glass-ceiling-became-...The Washington Post [1] Ad Week interview with Nora Frenkel, 1985

External links

► http://www.fabfoundationuk.org/