This comes after Sussan Ley issued orders to state branches to boost female representation before the next election.
Although the defence spokesman and former Liberal leadership challenger conceded that the party was 鈥渘ot getting it right鈥 in terms of ensuring it had a 鈥渞epresentative number of women鈥, he said quotas was not the answer.
鈥淚鈥檝e never been a supporter of quotas as a means to do that. I think there are better ways of doing that, and I鈥檝e seen that in my own business career, making sure we attract, we retain, we mentor great people, including, of course, great women,鈥 he said.
Instead, he said the Liberal Party needed to become 鈥渙bsessed with attracting, retaining and mentoring great talent鈥.
While Mr Taylor wouldn鈥檛 go as far to mirror the Opposition Leader鈥檚 comments that she was a 鈥渮ealot鈥 when it cames to getting more women to join the party, he said: 鈥淚 have always been a zealot for talented people.鈥
Mr Taylor鈥檚 comments come as the Ms Ley called on state Liberal divisions to preselect more women in winnable seats ahead of the 2028 federal election.
While she said she was 鈥渁gnostic鈥 on the specific methods to achieve better gender representations, like quotas, she left the door open for federal intervention if state divisions didn鈥檛 co-operate with her directive.
鈥淚 want to work proactively, passionately with our state divisions to achieve more women in the Liberal Party,鈥 she told the National Press Club on Wednesday.
鈥淲hat we have now is completely unacceptable. What we have done has not worked. What we need to do going forward has to be different.鈥
However, other members of the Liberal Party, like NSW Liberal senator Maria Kovacic, have backed short-term forced quotas in order to boost the party鈥檚 numbers.
鈥淚 believe that quotas are necessary as a short-term circuit breaker because what we鈥檙e doing at the moment hasn鈥檛 worked,鈥 she told the ABC.
鈥淚t鈥檚 clear we don鈥檛 have enough women, and we need to create a balance so that, as Sussan properly stated, we have a party that respects, reflects and represents modern Australia.鈥
Retired Liberal senator and former defence minister Linda Reynolds also backed temporary quotas following the Coalition鈥檚 2022 election loss.
鈥淚 have never been a fan of quotas, as by themselves they do not deliver the reforms needed to enable permanent change to stick, and then quotas risk becoming permanent,鈥 she wrote in 2022.
鈥淚n light of the party鈥檚 worst result since 1993, I have raised the idea of temporary quotas to kickstart wider reform.鈥