Lion spent millions of dollars closing its gender pay gap. Now it’s going one step further on promoting workplace gender equality: removing ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ carer labels to give parents more flexibility around the leave they take after having a child.

It’s a move that outgoing CEO Stuart Irvine, who has also kickstarted a number of other gender equality initiatives during his eight years at the helm, has more than paid for itself in terms of the level of talent they’ve been able to attract and retain.

Listen to what Irvine has to share about this in this interview for the Family Friendly Workplaces podcast.