The federal budget will contain a range of measures to address women's safety and financial security.

The government insists the initiatives are not designed to address recent controversies around sexual harassment and assault.

But opposition frontbencher Katy Gallagher is not impressed by the pink-hued budget papers.

"Do you honestly think the Morrison government would have had a women's package if it wasn't for the pressure they've been under in the past three months?" she told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.

"In last year's budget we were told that women were lucky because they'd built an extra lane on the highway, on the Barton Highway, that was their women's package.

"And you told me the two things aren't linked? Of course they are linked."

Senator Gallagher said after years of cuts and neglect, whatever the coalition promised in the budget was an attempt to cover over failures when it came to supporting women.

Australian Associated Press