With Clamp's strong support in 1907, Taylor applied to become the first female member of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales. However she was not accepted at this time, and she later claimed to have been "blackballed" by a groundswell of hostility from the all-male membership who did not wish to admit a woman member. After the Institute had a reorganisation and dropped their entrance exam, she eventually became their first woman to be associate member having “"practised as an architect and at present is serving in an advisory capacity to architects as well as assisting in the production of “The Building Magazine”"". She was admitted as a full member in 1923.