Gladys Beaumont Carter (21 April 1887 – 8 December 1959) was a British academic nurse, economist and writer.
[1] Carter was employed as a health visitor and as a midwife and in 1925 she decided to train to be a state registered nurse at London's King's College Hospital.
[2] In 1930 she was teaching midwifery and starting to campaign for higher educational standards in nursing.
[3] In 1934 she became the Organising Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, then called the Midwife's Institute.
[5][6] She wrote about the effect of rigid hierarchies and outdated discipline which encouraged bullying and created barriers to progress and the recruitment of nurses.
[5] Carter had published A Dictionary of Midwifery and Public Health in 1954 and after she died in hospital in London in 1959[2] there was a second edition.