The intellectual faculties of the female mind have too long been confined by narrow and ill directed modes of education and
thus they  have been concealed, not only from others, but from themselves the energies of which they are capable.
Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex

Though ahead of her time as a social reformer, Priscilla Wakefield was not radical in her thinking with regards to women in society and believed that women should be educated to the appropriate level within their class.  In her only book for adults Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, which was published in 1798, she argues that all useful work was productive work and that all women should receive an education which would enable them to be useful and to support themselves.

There is scarcely a more helpless object in the wide circle of misery which the vicissitudes of civilised society display, than a woman genteelly educated whether single or married, who is deprived by any unfortunate accident of the protection and support of male relations; unaccustomed to struggle with difficulty, unacquainted with any resource to supply an independent maintenance she is reduced to the depths of wretchedness and not infrequently, if she be young and handsome, is driven to those parts which lead to infamy.... had they been instructed in the exercise of some art or professions, which would have enabled them to procure of themselves a respectable support by their own industry.
Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex

Quakerism formally accorded women a spiritual equality with men.  Outside the Quaker movement, as a woman of her time, Wakefield was not enfranchised, and as a married woman she had no legal identity under common law. Furthermore, as a Quaker she came from a cultural background wherein even the men did not  attend the English universities or  enter the legal profession; that is until the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act in 1828.

She suggested that the "first and second classes" of women be employed in writing, painting, engraving, sculpture, music and landscape gardening - but not the theater - the moral hazard too great. Women of the "third class" were suitable for teaching, working in shops, the stationary business, apothecary's work, pastry and candy-making, light lathe work and toymaking. Farming was on her list as as a suitable occupation for women.
Camilla Leach and Joyce Goodman, Educating the women of the Nation: Priscilla Wakefield and the construction of national identity, 1798. Quaker Studies Volume 5, Issue 2 2000

Supporting women and children was always particularly important to Priscilla Wakefield.  Financial difficulties within her own family meant that at 43 she had to become the main breadwinner supporting not just her own immediate family, but the extended family as her sons also encountered  difficulties.