About

Dr Lucie Newsome lectures in management and economics at the University of New England. She has extensive experience in gender equality research and program development in the Australian context, including the development of the Lucy Mentoring Program, which has been offered at Australian universities since 2004. She has published in the fields of paid parental leave policy, women’s representation on corporate boards, gendered experiences of work and gender and entrepreneurship. Her media commentary includes columns for The Guardian and interviews on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio and online news outlets. Formerly, Dr. Newsome has held senior policy and project roles in the New South Wales and Queensland Governments.

Publications

Newsome, Lucie, and Alison Sheridan. “Accommodating Gender through Self-Regulation: A Limited Response for Equity on Boards in Australia.” In Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World, edited by Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur, 41–58. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Newsome, L. (2019). “Gender and citizenship in Australia: Government approaches to paid parental leave policy 1996-2017“, Social Politics.

Newsome, L. (2017).“Female leadership and welfare state reform: the development of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme”, Australian Journal of Political Science, 52(4): 537-549.

Newsome, L. (2017).“The rise and fall of paid maternity leave policy in the years of the Keating Government”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63(20): 223-237.

Email: lnewsom3@une.edu.au

Gender and Policy Implementation Publications