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Young women are leading changes to systemic issues plaguing workplace culture while young men are skewing more conservative, an expert says.

According to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), there is a 21.8 per cent gender pay gap in Australia, which means women earn 78 cents for every dollar men earn.

It equates to women earning an average of $28,425 less each year.

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It says many factors are to blame, including discrimination and bias in hiring and pay decisions, women's disproportionate share of unpaid caring and domestic work and female-dominated industries and jobs attracting lower wages.

But there's been a shift over the past few years.

Future Women founder Helen McCabe attributes this to a growing number of young women entering the workplace and refusing to tolerate forms of inequality.

"Younger women are definitely driving reform in organisations because they won't put up with what older generations of women put up with," she said.

"Older generations of women are kind of thinking 'it wasn't like that in my day and it's not all that, you should just get over it and move on, he's not that bad, he didn't really mean anything by it'.

"It's a really interesting time that we're having and the conversation is quite fascinating."

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WGEA, however, has reported that progress to end the gender pay gap is happening after 56 per cent of employers improved their disparity in the 12 months to March.

And, as changes are made, young male workers are no longer guaranteed the privileges they have been accustomed to seeing older men receive, McCabe said.

"The structural underpinnings of society have always been the boys get the job, get more pay, marry a woman who has children and do the stay-at-home work. That they are more likely to get the promotion and more likely to run the company and more likely to run the country," she said.

"That has shifted and it's not automatic anymore. If you add quotas or targets to the mix, and you're a talented young man in a law firm, you're up against talented young women in a law firm right now."

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Future Women hopes to change that and help men and women navigate workplaces.

"I think one of the things that we do at Future Women is really embrace the opportunity to bring men into the conversation and help them be better leaders of men and women, and that improves the work the workplace for everybody," McCabe said.

Future Women has launched a diamond membership that provides members the opportunity to hear from guest speakers, share and plug their upcoming projects, form connections across different sectors and receive unlimited access to online professional development resources.

Inside a room at one of the organisation's events are women from the public and private sectors across industries like finance, business and politics.

"I find when we're in the room, that combination is really powerful," McCabe said.

So far, she said the response has been "amazing".

"They're hungry for more content. They've got more opportunities to connect," McCabe said.

Future Women is part-owned by Nine, the publisher of this website.

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Jetstar is applauding ground breaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for a reduction in flight delays and cancellations.

The airline is leveraging real-time data to predict and prevent maintenance issues before they occur.

Jetstar's newest plane, an A321neo was put through its paces in Toulouse, France.

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It's a milestone for the airline as it also harnesses AI technology.

Jetstar has partnered with Airbus' SKYWISE platform that monitors real time data from the planes to help predict maintenance issues before they happen.

The technology has been used internationally since 2017.

Jordan Beecroft, Senior Fleet Engineering Manager said it was "giving insights into the aircraft that we have never had before".

"We will schedule the aircraft in overnight when there is no flying plan," he said.

"We'll have the right part there, the people there to get it done, the aircraft will go back into service and nobody will know that there was ever an issue with it really."

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Last year the new technology prevented more than 40 cancelled Jetstar flights, contributing to a 93 per cent reduction in engineering-related cancellations.

After the success of predictive maintenance Jetstar is also looking at other ways AI and technology can help more flights get away on time.

"The new technology, the new models, generative AI, will even bring more value in the new future. So we are quite excited," Head of Digital Solutions Marketing Airbus David Marty said.

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Anthony Albanese has announced a $2.3 billion investment that would slash the cost of household batteries by 30 per cent as part of a combined cost of living and climate change action pitch to voters.

At a press conference in Brisbane today, the prime minister said the move would save households around $4000 on installing a home battery.

"We're taking the next step on roof top solar," Albanese said.

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"Rooftop solar is a great Australia success story.

"Every solar panel in the world contains Australian ideas and Australian innovation."

According to Albanese, one in three households have solar panels but only one in 40 homes has a battery. 

"Batteries change the equation," he said.

"Every household that installs a battery, drives down energy prices for everyone else because it drives down peak demand."

Albanese is spruiking the incentive as action on cost of living and climate change, as more uptake in solar batteries will take pressure off the power grid.

The discount will be available from July 1 with Labor expecting to see at least one million new batteries installed by 2030.

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