WORKPLACE AUSTRALIA Post has taken a major step to promote gender equality in its workforce after it unveiled a three-year plan to close the gap. 
Chief executive Ahmed -Fahour said the plan focused on creating career opportunities for female talent, educating the group and community on the need for equality, and holding leaders accountable for change.
Mr Fahour said Australia Post had committed to several actions, including ensuring eliminating any gender pay gap. He also pledged to ease the transition for women around maternity leave, and to improve the group's domestic violence policy.
Mr Fahour said Australia Post would ensure more women took leadership roles, and would help leaders to identify and address gender bias.
He said the postal giant's progress over the past five years in promoting women was a good example of what can be achieved, but there was more to do."Australia Post will do it because it is the right thing to do and it makes, ultimately, good business sense," Mr Fahour said.