By Faisal Islam, Political Editor
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to promise to get up to half a million more women into the workplace as part of a new Conservative push on the economy.
With GDP figures for the third quarter released on Friday morning, George Osborne will be touring the length and breadth of Britain to try to send a message that the macroeconomic recovery is working for women.
The centrepiece of Mr Osborne's ambition is to increase the UK female employment rate of 67% to that in Germany of 69%.
Ahead of December's Autumn Statement, he is considering extending the Government's Childcare Business Grant to £2m to help create 50,000 further childcare places.
He will also announce new Treasury research showing the number of women in employment in the UK at a record level, and that the bulk of the growth in that has been in highly skilled occupations.
"Today's Treasury research shows that women are playing an ever larger role in the economy, but it also makes clear that there's more we can do to support women into work," said Mr Osborne.
"That is why I am today visiting women working in all four sectors of the economy to find out what more we can do to support them."
The Conservatives have repeatedly been accused of having "a problem with women", before a recent reshuffle promoting women to key ministerial positions.
But David Cameron will have to do a lot better with the so-called "Mumsnet vote" to stay in Downing Street next May.
The tour is also part of a wider move to show the recovery in GDP is benefiting individual groups.
The Opposition criticise the nature of the recovery in the UK, argue that the "cost of living crisis" and low pay disproportionately affect women in the workforce. Of those on zero-hours contracts, 54% are women.
Mr Osborne and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will visit Cheshire and Devon.
In Exeter he will also announce £150m in capital funding for NHS clinical research.
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