The most senior woman in the Morrison government, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, says quotas for women in the Liberal Party should be considered but she has not yet decided whether she supports them.

“It's an interesting issue for us to discuss. At this point I don't support or oppose quotas, but I do know that as an organisation there is more that we can do,” Senator Payne said on Friday.

About a quarter of the Liberal candidates preselected so far for the House of Representatives in the upcoming federal election are women - 22 out of a total of 87 - but about 48 seats are still to be decided.

The party also has women preselected in winnable positions on its Senate tickets in all six states, Senator Payne said.

But she repeated the much-expressed view within the party that it needed to do more, with “all options … on the table”.