Mrs Mensch reiterated her desire to be a Parliamentary Private Secretary ? an unpaid advisory role on the lowest rung of the ministerial ladder.
She said: ?I suppose in the end I would like to rise to PPS level but if I don?t, so what? You can make a Conservative argument in the media, advocate Conservative positions in international development.
?If there is a focus on me I can use that to advance an argument, with or without a promotion.?
Mrs Mensch said that Mr Cameron ?has promoted women, he is promoting women into junior ministerial positions? from within the Tory ranks, but it was hard because of the need in the Coalition to give Government jobs to Liberal Democrats.
In a video interview with The Guardian, she said: ?He has put them into PPS positions, junior ministerial positions and I am quite confident that he will promote women in the forthcoming reshuffle.
?He [Mr Cameron] inherited a Conservative parliamentary party that was 91 per cent white male. It takes time to turn a ship of that magnitude around. He has been clear that he wants to have a third of ministerial positions filled by women.
?The Coalition Government is stymied by the fact that many of the senior positions in Government are reserved for senior liberal democrats and the Liberal Democrats don?t have enough women.?
Labour has criticised the Government by claiming me of its policies and spending cuts have been impacting harshly on women.
Prime Minister David Cameron has been meeting with the Conservative Women's Forum, made up by the vast majority of the party?s 49 Tory women MPs. Downing Street is also looking at hiring a female special adviser to assist in policy development.
Yesterday it emerged Mrs Mensch complained to Downing Street after the wife of Education Secretary Michael Gove compared her to the glamour model Katie Price.
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