ABSTRACT
By 1930 vocational curricula had been funded by the federal government for more than ten years, and vocational programs were entrenched in the secondary school curriculum. The vocational function of schools was embedded in the fabric of course work, and the fabric was shaded symbolically in pink and blue. Vocational courses for young women consisted of training for office work, home economics, and some trade education which for the most part was in the needle trades. The seemingly predictable outcome, segregation on the basis of gender, belies the complex history of the movement.
