The Liberal Party needs to do more to encourage young mums into federal parliament, frontbencher Christopher Pyne says.
The Education Minister, who has four children of his own, believes the federal opposition has been better at attracting young mums into parliament.
"It's something in the Liberal Party that we need to put a real effort into," he told ABC television on Monday.
Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer recently gave birth to her first child but Mr Pyne says that's a rarity on his side of politics when it should be commonplace.
The ALP national conference at the weekend endorsed a policy to ensure women hold 50 per cent of positions at all levels of the party by 2025.
Mr Pyne says he doesn't believe in quotas or targets, but wants to see more women in parliament - and not just those whose children have left home.
He hails Prime Minister Tony Abbott's chief of staff Peta Credlin as an example of someone encouraging other women to be part of the power structure.
Mr Pyne has recently written a book called A Letter to My Children, which explains why he chose a life in politics.
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