Australia captain Alyssa Healy says she would back any move to expand women's multi-format series into a world championship event.
Thursday's Test between Australia and England at Trent Bridge will kick off the seventh multi-format Ashes between the teams. It was introduced in 2013.
The winner of the Test match will collect four points on the overall head-to-head leaderboard, while three Twenty20s and three One-Day Internationals are worth two points each.
The multi-format series is one of three Australia will play in the next seven months, with a tour to India and home fixtures against South Africa to follow.
Officials are desperate to encourage more women's teams to play Test cricket, with Pakistan and New Zealand having not done so since 2004.
One idea would include turning the multi-format series into a biennial global challenge, in the same vein as the men's World Test Championship.
The championship would be less complicated than the men's, given all series are the same in length and could be used to complete an overall ladder before the top two qualify for the final.
Most fixtures would already be scheduled in the Future Tours Programme, with only South Africa needing to make up games as they have no Tests set beyond this summer.
"Why not do it?" Healy said to AAP.
"That could be a really great idea. It would take investment, it would take time and planning.
"And whether we are at a place to do that or not, or whether the ICC are ready to put that in place, I am not sure.
"But at least organisations are willing to put it to the table, which is cool."
The other benefits of such a system would be to give more context to individual series, and offer more to play for in each Test match.
As things stand, teams often play defensively in the Test in a bid to not give up points on the series ladder.
But the lure of gaining points and places on a championship table could change that.
"You could go one of two ways with the Test match in these series," Healy said.
"We went from a point of it being worth a lot of points, and then it was you don't want to lose because you're out of the series.
"Then it was a mid-point, and now there is talk of making it worth less points.
"Hopefully us playing against three different sides in the space of seven months might encourage a few others to go, 'You know what, we might have a go (at Test cricket)'."
Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley told AAP the priority remained encouraging more countries to play multi-format series.
"We're really encouraged that more countries are wanting to play," Hockley said.
"We would love to see multi-format series being a regular feature of all tours."
