1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 In 1969, women were allowed entry to undergraduate study&amp;nbsp;at Yale for the first time. Their experience was not the same&amp;nbsp;as their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another,&amp;nbsp;singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of the school’s privileges, the young women nonetheless met the challenge of being first and changed Yale in ways&amp;nbsp;it had never anticipated. Mary Donohue interviews historian and Yale alumna Anne Gardiner Perkins, author of Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant and New Haven leader Constance Royster,&amp;nbsp;one of Yale’s first women undergrads.&amp;nbsp;Anne Gardiner Perkins is an award-winning historian and higher education expert, and the author of Yale Needs Women, which won the 2020 Connecticut Book Award. Ms. Royster holds a J.D. from Rutgers University Law School – Newark, and a B.A. cum laude from Yale University. Read more!“UConn Law: The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett,” Spring 2014 “Yale’s Grace Murray Hopper College,” Fall 2017 This episode was produced by Mary Donohue, Assistant Publisher of&amp;nbsp;Connecticut Explored, the magazine of Connecticut history&amp;nbsp;and engineered by Patrick O’Sullivan.&amp;nbsp; Ms. Donohue has documented Connecticut’s architecture, built environment and popular culture for over 30 years. Contact her at marydonohue@comcast.net &amp;nbsp; Grating the Nutmeg http://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/podcast <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18132188/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/97136456